Zach Wilson--Alternative Topic 2

The language debate that we had early in the class has still consumed my mind, whether concepts or ideas exist before language, or whether language creates these concepts.  In many ways, this argument is similar to the age old question of which came first, the chicken or the the egg.  Ideas are thoughts, which we can cognize because of language.  Without language, there would be us, and the world around us.  There would be no way of interacting with or describing the outside world.   However, the question that exists is whether one can have an idea of an object without interacting with it or describing it.
Plato's Forms work in a similar fashion to describe the perfect idea of something, or an object, person, or concept in its purest or truest form.  Language is certainly useful in describing or developing ideas, but it cannot be necessary, because in order for something to be described or developed it must first exists.  There must be a prelingual form of an idea that exists that inspires words to come about.  The current-day forms of objects are those which are descendent from the prelingual forms.