Lexicon of Arguments

 

Lanz I 303
Learning/Fodor: acquisition of the mother tongue: presentation and testing of hypotheses about which parts of the natural language correlate with which parts of the congenital "language of thought" (mentalese).
ChurchlandVsFodor: it would follow that one cannot learn new concepts in a certain sense.
If opinions are relations to sentences of the "language of thought", then a sentence must be stored for each opinion somewhere.
Does a sentence in the "language of thought" have to be stored for every tacitly held opinion? This would exceed the capacity limits. But this storage was not enough, the sentences would have to be accessible and available at the right time. In addition, the connections must be transparent to the organism (though not to consciousness). (ChurchlandVsMentalese). Cf. >Mentalese.