I'm not sure. There's a view that, as I understand it, suggests that language is intelligence. That language is a requirement for understanding.
An example might be kind of the contrary—that you might not be able to hold an idea in your head until it has been named. For myself, until I heard the word gestalt (maybe a fitting example?) I am not sure I could have understood the concept. But when it is described it starts to coalesce—and then when named, it became real. (If that makes sense.)
FWIW, Zeitgeist is another one of those concepts/words for me. I guess I have to thank the German language.
Perhaps it is why other animals on this planet seem to us lacking intelligence. Perhaps it is their lack of complex language holding their minds back.
An example might be kind of the contrary—that you might not be able to hold an idea in your head until it has been named. For myself, until I heard the word gestalt (maybe a fitting example?) I am not sure I could have understood the concept. But when it is described it starts to coalesce—and then when named, it became real. (If that makes sense.)
FWIW, Zeitgeist is another one of those concepts/words for me. I guess I have to thank the German language.
Perhaps it is why other animals on this planet seem to us lacking intelligence. Perhaps it is their lack of complex language holding their minds back.