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Meaning of sententialism | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

The theory that cognition is based on and can be represented as sentences in mentalese.

uncountable

Examples

“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, […]”
“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: […]”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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See also

sententialist sententiality Sententially sententiarian sententiarist sententiary

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