# Inner Speech and Outer Thought  ## Metadata - Author: [[Keith Frankish]] - Full Title: Inner Speech and Outer Thought - Category: #articles - Summary: insert summary - My notes: - Summary: Inner speech helps us think consciously by allowing us to rehearse and plan actions in our mind. Conscious thinking is an active process that often uses speech, either spoken out loud or in our heads. This view connects thinking with language and shows how we use inner speech to reason and make decisions. - URL: https://readwise.io/reader/document_raw_content/407690853 ## LLM Chats ## NotebookLM ## LLM Audio ## Highlights > As Carruthers stresses, this process may involve, not only decoding the utterance's semantic content, but also theorizing about the intentions behind the utterance — in order, for example, to resolve ambiguities, recover pragmatic aspects of meaning, and work out what attitude is being expressed (Carruthers, 2011, pp. 86–96). ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01kes8v6tbks05edhxqa5d9bej))