Thought, Context and Expression

Is it possible to think without a context? It’s one thing to express a thought without context and another to think without one. By context, I mean a local/recurring event or an act or a behavior or a picture—the perceivable/showable thing.

Even the most abstract of concepts is unthinkable without a context. How do you think the concept of number? Is there such a thing as pure abstraction in thought? Therefore, the answer to the first question: probably not.

On the other hand, there is no compulsion to express a thought in context. However, when one attempts to do that, one risks being misunderstood or misappropriated. Then again, misunderstanding and misappropriation can happen only when statements become private property – mine, yours, and theirs. In its barest state, a sentence means only one thing: a sentence with a beginning and an end (regardless of whether the sentence is grammatically incomplete or whether there was an ellipsis at the beginning or the end). Do you see it now?