Conscious thinking: Language or elimination?

Do we conduct our conscious propositional thinking in natural language? Or is such language only peripherally related to human conscious thought-proce sses? In this payer I shall present a partial defence of the former view, b y arguing that the only real alternative is eliminativism about conscious p ropositional thinking. Following some introductory remarks, I shall state t he argument for this conclusion, and show how that conclusion can be true. Thereafter I shall defend each of the three main premises in turn.