"Do you think.... Because when we think, we think in words.... That the language you know has a deterministic effect on the thoughts you can think? The ideas you can grasp..."
I think a large vocabulary can broaden or widen or nuance thinking, but I don't think it determines it any more than a small one does.
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"Can you think without words? Intuitively."
I think some dogs I've known have done it exactly that way. Might not be possible for us: we're symbol-makers and -assigners, signifiers of the world, semiotic beings.
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"Or are both happening within us?"
If you count emotion as thinking without words: yes.
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