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“Thought as Syntax”

http://ordinaryworkinggrammarian.blogspot.com/2019/10/thought-as-syntax.html?m=1

“…There is no need for an independent language of thought or mentalese, other than natural language syntax.”

“I assume that there are no word-object relations (unlike the standard conception of a model in logic). However, our language works as if there were word-object relations. In other words, we refer to London as if it actually existed in the real world even though it is not possible for something with the properties that we attribute to London to exist in the real world (see Chomsky 2000, and Gondry 2013 for a popular exposition of Chomsky’s ideas on this topic). These objects are created by the human mind, but we assume that they exist in the real world.”

Chris Collins

@LAATU