Ruth G. Millikan, “Beyond Concepts: Unicepts, Language, and Natural Information” (Oxford UP, 2018)
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The Language of Thought
The act of identifying the act of recognizing all a thing is basically an act always as a re-identifying. And there are a number of different ways that that one could represent identity. So if I said John did this, and then a few minutes later I say John did that, you know, it's the same things being talked about because I use the same word again. That's to represent identity by similarity of that sort is the way language works. There's another thing about the language of thought that's very important. The idea was developed by people like Wilther Sellers who argued against holism.
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