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10 Feb 16
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So-called "Mentalese" is supposed to be an inner language that contains all of the conceptual resources necessary for any of the propositions that humans can grasp, think or express--in short, the basis of thought and meaning.
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11 Feb 15
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medium of thought is an innate language that is distinct from all spoken languages and is semantically expressively complete
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"Mentalese" is supposed to be an inner language that contains all of the conceptual resources
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basis of thought and meaning
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there is a mental language that is different from human spoken languages
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Representational Realism: Thinkers have explicit representational systems; to think a thought with a given content is to be appropriately related to a representation with the right meaning
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Linguistic Thought: The (main) representational system that underlies human thought, and perhaps that underlies thought in other species too, is semantically and syntactically language-like
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this representational system consists of syntactic tokens that are capable of expressing propositional meanings in virtue of the semantic compositionalilty of the syntactic elements
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Distinctness: The language of thought is not identical to any spoken language
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Nativism: There is a single genetically determined mental language possessed by humans, and perhaps (at least partially possessed) by all other thinking species
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Semantic Completeness: This language is expressively semantically complete--any predicate that we are able to semantically comprehend is expressible in this language
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21 Jun 13
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"Mentalese" is supposed to be an inner language that contains all of the conceptual resources necessary for any of the propositions that humans can grasp, think or express
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explicit representational systems
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semantically and syntactically language-like
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not identical to any spoken language
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a single genetically determined mental language
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expressively semantically complete
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some, many or most mental state attributions that involve apparent content
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are not literally true, they are useful fictions.
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linguistic systematic relationship
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20 Feb 13
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Fodor's LOT hypothesis may be divided into five component theses:
(1) Representational Realism: Thinkers have explicit representational systems; to think a thought with a given content is to be appropriately related to a representation with the right meaning, e.g., to have the belief that capitalism breeds greed is to have a representational token with the content "capitalism breeds greed" in one's belief box.
(2) Linguistic Thought: The (main) representational system that underlies human thought, and perhaps that underlies thought in other species too, is semantically and syntactically language-like, i.e., it is similar to spoken human languages. Specifically, this representational system consists of syntactic tokens that are capable of expressing propositional meanings in virtue of the semantic compositionalilty of the syntactic elements. E.g., there are mental words that express concepts (and the like) that can be formed into true or false mental sentences.
(3) Distinctness: The language of thought is not identical to any spoken language.
(4) Nativism: There is a single genetically determined mental language possessed by humans, and perhaps (at least partially possessed) by all other thinking species.
(5) Semantic Completeness: This language is expressively semantically complete--any predicate that we are able to semantically comprehend is expressible in this language.
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31 Jul 08
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In his (1975) Jerry Fodor offered a bold hypothesis: the medium of thought is an innate language that is distinct from all spoken languages and is semantically expressively complete. So-called "Mentalese" is supposed to be an inner language that contains all of the conceptual resources necessary for any of the propositions that humans can grasp, think or express--in short, the basis of thought and meaning.
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Fodor's LOT hypothesis may be divided into five component theses:
(1) Representational Realism: Thinkers have explicit representational systems; to think a thought with a given content is to be appropriately related to a representation with the right meaning, e.g., to have the belief that capitalism breeds greed is to have a representational token with the content "capitalism breeds greed" in one's belief box.
(2) Linguistic Thought: The (main) representational system that underlies human thought, and perhaps that underlies thought in other species too, is semantically and syntactically language-like, i.e., it is similar to spoken human languages. Specifically, this representational system consists of syntactic tokens that are capable of expressing propositional meanings in virtue of the semantic compositionalilty of the syntactic elements. E.g., there are mental words that express concepts (and the like) that can be formed into true or false mental sentences.
(3) Distinctness: The language of thought is not identical to any spoken language.
(4) Nativism: There is a single genetically determined mental language possessed by humans, and perhaps (at least partially possessed) by all other thinking species.
(5) Semantic Completeness: This language is expressively semantically complete--any predicate that we are able to semantically comprehend is expressible in this language.
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