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HoP 273 - What Do You Think? - Ockham on Mental Language

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

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Aham's Theory of Mental Language

Theory of mental language dates back to Plato's dialogue theitetis. William of ahem says it is more natural than spoken and written languages. Aham notes that nouns at the level of thought have no grammatical gender. Even if mental language did involve grammatical gender, you still wouldn't have to refer to a fork in thought as a she because mental language has no pronouns either.

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