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Language-of-thought hypothesis: Wrong, but sometimes useful?

Adina L RoskiesColin Allen
Published in: The Behavioral and brain sciences (2023)
Quilty-Dunn et al. maintain that language-of-thought hypothesis (LoTH) is the best game in town. We counter that LoTH is merely one source of models - always wrong, sometimes useful. Their reasons for liking LoTH are compatible with the view that LoTH provides a sometimes pragmatically useful level of abstraction over processes and mechanisms that fail to fully live up to LoT requirements.
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