sententialism
nounEtymology From sentential + -ism.
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Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences, Semantics The theory that cognition is based on and can be represented as sentences in mentalese.
- Sententialism does not entail that only verbal creatures can enjoy a mental language. Neither does it presuppose that an intelligent creature's language of thought must be its language of communication, […]1989, J. Christopher Maloney, The Mundane Matter of the Mental Language, page 111:
- Thinking, according to sententialism, may then be like quoting. To quote an English sentence is to issue, in a certain way, a token of a given English sentence type: […]2015, Richard John Kosciejew, The Pursuing Presence of Facts:
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