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: T(j) This expression states that the predicate 'T' ("is tall") holds of the entity 'j' (John). A real proposal for what a language of thought might look like would have to be more complex than any pure logical language, since it would have to take into account complex aspects of human thought such as the Propositional Attitudes . These are the various attitudes people can have towards statements; for example I might ''believe'' that John is tall, but on the other hand I could merely ''suspect'' that John is tall. The LOT hypothesis has wide-ranging significance. It implies a strongly Rationalist model of cognition where many of the fundamentals of cognition are innate, and challenges Eliminative Materialism and Connectionism . Other philosophers have argued that our public language is used as our mental language; that a person who speaks English ''thinks'' in English. Others contend that people who do not know a public language (e.g. babies) ''can'' think, and that therefore some form of mentalese must be present by default, but is replaced by public language. REFERENCES
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