Thought forms are stored in human language as a deposit to be worked on

Evidence

Declaring that ‘the forms of thought are, in the first instance, displayed (herausgesetzt) and stored (niedergelegt) in human language’, Hegel instances this natural deposit as if it were a consignment coming from nowhere, as if it fell from the sky, like a gift to be kept. Niederlegen in German means ’ to lay down’, ‘to deposit’, ‘to write onto a piece of paper’, but also ‘to resign’, ‘to give up’. Hence when the philosopher works on natural language, he or she is working on a new space and time: stored by spirit in the idiom itself. — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 1144

Categorization

• DEFINE: Hegel’s claim that the forms of thought are literally deposited (niedergelegt) in language — and the semantic richness of ‘niederlegen’ itself as lay down / resign / give up.
• XREF: connects to: Tools encode the structures of thought of their makers — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism: A Critique of…, 397; Language preserves fossilized worldviews within its living metaphors — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1599; Language enables meanings rather than passively carrying them (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Language preserves fossilized worldviews within its living metaphors #corroborates (0.80) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1599
• Language enables meanings rather than passively carrying them #expands (0.75)
• Histories and causal narratives persist buried inside the language used to tell them #corroborates (0.75)
• Tools encode the structures of thought of their makers #expands (0.72) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 397