Language , Thought , and the Language of Thought ( Aunty ’ s Own Argument Revisited
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چکیده
1. Introduction In this chapter, I shall be examining an argument for the language of thought hypothesis – an argument which, in earlier work (Davies, 1992; see also 1991), I have called 'Aunty's own argument for the language of thought'. That will be the business of Sections 2-5. In the final section, I shall briefly mention some points of contact between this argument for the language of thought (LOT) hypothesis and the hypothesis that is the topic of Peter Carruthers's book, Language, Thought and Consciousness, which I shall call the thinking in natural language (TNL) hypothesis. Before beginning on Aunty's own argument, however, I shall briefly present a framework for organising questions about the relative priority of thought and language.
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