?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Language+of+Thought+Hypothesis%3A+State+of+the+Art&rft.creator=Aydede%2C+Murat&rft.subject=Cognitive+Psychology&rft.subject=Artificial+Intelligence&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Language&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Mind&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Mind&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Science&rft.description=The+Language+of+Thought+Hypothesis+(LOTH)+is+an+empirical+thesis+about+thought+and+thinking.+For+their+explication%2C+it+postulates+a+physically+realized+system+of+representations+that+have+a+combinatorial+syntax+(and+semantics)+such+that+operations+on+representations+are+causally+sensitive+only+to+the+syntactic+properties+of+representations.+According+to+LOTH%2C+thought+is%2C+roughly%2C+the+tokening+of+a+representation+that+has+a+syntactic+(constituent)+structure+with+an+appropriate+semantics.+Thinking+thus+consists+in+syntactic+operations+defined+over+representations.+Most+of+the+arguments+for+LOTH+derive+their+strength+from+their+ability+to+explain+certain+empirical+phenomena+like+productivity%2C+systematicity+of+thought+and+thinking.&rft.date=1998-01&rft.type=Preprint&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F353%2F1%2FLOTH.SEP.html&rft.identifier=++Aydede%2C+Murat++(1998)+Language+of+Thought+Hypothesis%3A+State+of+the+Art.++%5BPreprint%5D++++(Unpublished)++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F353%2F