Philosophy is meta-thought

It's so simple I almost came in my pants when I had this revelation. If anyone ever asks you to define philosophy, just say "philosophy is the meta of thought". This is the clearest, simplest and most apt definition of philosophy there could ever be.

>>16
Go ahead and think a thought without relying on language, it is not possible. It is not possible to conceive of something without language. This is very simple and obvious stuff.

>>17
No, words are the only sign and they create the framework that allows a sign to signify in the first place. That is why that dude had to put "this is not a pipe" on his painting of a pipe. That is why you cannot remember what the world looked like before you learned to talk (and, no, the false memories of that time that language implanted do not count).