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: T(j) This expression states that the predicate 'T' ("is tall") holds of the entity 'j' (John). A fully articulated proposal for what a language of thought might look like would have to be more complex than than a simple extensional logical representation such as this, since it would have to take into account complex aspects of human thought such as Quantification and Propositional Attitudes (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 for a number of domains in Cognitive Science . It implies a strongly Rationalist model of cognition in which many of the fundamentals of cognition are innate, and challenges Eliminative Materialism and Connectionism . Other philosophers, following Ludwig Wittgenstein , 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, Aphasics ) ''can'' think, and that therefore some form of mentalese must be present innately. SEE ALSO Private Language Argument REFERENCES
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