Russell (1961: 550);
Descartes's indubitable facts are his own thoughts — using 'thought' in the widest possible sense. 'I think' is his ultimate premiss. … The decision, however, to regard thoughts rather than external objects as the prime empirical certainties was very important, and had a profound effect on all subsequent philosophy.
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In Chomskyan Formal Linguistics, thoughts — intuitions about language, rather than instances of language — constitute the data for a theory that models knowledge of language, rather than language itself.
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