
HoP 273 - What Do You Think? - Ockham on Mental Language
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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Is There a Mental Language?
In his theory of demonstration, aristotle insisted that true scientific understanding always involves necessary and universal truths. In general, mental terms will have only the features that are needed in order to signify or be meaningful. While the gender of a latin noun may fall away in the language of thought, acham holds that its grammatical case would not because it affects the meaning of a sentence containing the word.
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