Meaning of sententialism | Babel Free

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