In the development of Western technology, it has been non-verbalthinking, by and large, that has fixed the outlines and filled in the details of our material surroundings.
在西方科技的发展中，非语言思维大体上固定了我们物质环境的轮廓，并填充了细节。
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If you think that not thinking is the same as having a blank mind, then you're making the error of equating "the mind" with "thinking" and specifically with verbalthinking, or inner self-talk.
Paul Samuelson created modern economics, in that he brought rigorous thinking to a field that had relied on mostly verbal and graphical analysis up to his time.