ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the external contexts which lead to our thinking, that is, thinking only arises from the contexts outside of us. Thoughts are events happening in all those contexts but you just do not say them out loud as happened. If we need a new word for the ever-present, multiple, and many times contradictory thoughts engendered from our contextual arrangements. Another point to help our contextual analysis of thinking is that, because what we call thinking develops as another use of language and so is linked to social relationships and resource networks, our ways of portraying thoughts and thinking also need to be analysed in this way. All of our terms and strategies for common-sense' talking about our thoughts and thinking are just ways of portraying events strategically. The chapter discusses that human intuition concerning the priority of thought over behavior is worth just about as much as our human intuition that the earth is flat.
