TY  - UNPB
ID  - cogprints353
UR  - http://cogprints.org/353/
A1  - Aydede, Murat
TI  - Language of Thought Hypothesis: State of the Art
Y1  - 1998/01//
N2  - The Language of Thought Hypothesis (LOTH) is an empirical thesis about thought and thinking. For their explication, 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, thought is, roughly, 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, systematicity of thought and thinking.
AV  - public
KW  - Thinking
KW  -  computation
KW  -  syntax
KW  -  language of thought
KW  -  representation
KW  -  naturalism
KW  -  intentionality
KW  -  connectionism
KW  -  systematiciy
KW  -  productivity
KW  -  folk psychology
KW  -  nativism
ER  -

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