title: Language of Thought Hypothesis: State of the Art
creator: Aydede, Murat
subject: Cognitive Psychology
subject: Artificial Intelligence
subject: Philosophy of Language
subject: Philosophy of Mind
subject: Philosophy of Mind
subject: Philosophy of Science
description: 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.
date: 1998-01
type: Preprint
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: text/html
identifier: http://cogprints.org/353/1/LOTH.SEP.html
identifier:   Aydede, Murat  (1998) Language of Thought Hypothesis: State of the Art.  [Preprint]    (Unpublished)  
relation: http://cogprints.org/353/