As long as we share words, we share a vigilance for making sure that they are backed by gold, that they can convey thought — any precise thought — all the way across a population, and thus carry argument and change.
But it did not occur to me to ask: Can one's intelligence rely entirely on the public language; can one form a precise thought, recall an accurate memory, or even feel a genuine feeling, with only the public language?
There were long flared coats and billowing floor-length skirts, which hid if not erased unduly precise thoughts about body parts.
MY precise thoughts are lost to time, but when I last walked out of the Armory onto West 168th Street in Washington Heights on a winter's night nearly 30 years ago, it's a good bet that I felt it would be for the last time.
Although Peirce's precise thoughts about the nature of this division were to change at various points in his development of sign theory, the division nonetheless remains throughout his work.
In some instances, this behavior can include trying to avoid to walk on lines of sidewalks and floors; washing hands or face time after time; sorting objects by size; performing precise thoughts or prayers before entering in a place.
"Rymer is a seasoned journalist, precise, attentive, thought-provoking," Eddy L. Harris said in these pages in 1998.
To be precise - thoughts and images of a sexual nature.
Failing to find in non-Western modes of thought precise translations of comparable rational expressions in their own languages, anthropologists hastened to conclude that the problem must lie with the non-Western modes of thought which appear to lack ways of accommodating rational expressions.
"We're very fortunate in the men's team to have a resource in Greg Rusedski, who can give us very detailed, precise and processed thoughts about what the boys are facing," he said.
But it is also a place where careful thought, individual pride, precise handiwork, thoughtful design and only the best of materials come together in each individual hat.
