Larry’s Reviews > Thinking without Words > Status Update
Larry
is on page 143 of 248
Finally one interesting point: an animal doesn’t think ~p constructed from p or vice versa, but thinks either _that_ the gazelle is present at x, or absent from x, without conceiving of any logical relation between the two. That means that the reason why the animal never thinks contradictions is that they don’t occur in nature. And Russell, I would add, thought the same thing of us (in Problems of Philosophy)
— Feb 21, 2025 04:09AM
Like flag
Larry’s Previous Updates
Larry
is on page 156 of 248
I just understood something: Clark’s functional compositionality (as opposed to Fodorian concatenative encoding) is the kind of compositionality that emerges at the level of interpreted meanings or forms, which is why it doesn’t have independently specifiable units or primitives. Compositionality is either a way of systematizing *language* or *interpretation*. Just thought about that, not that he talks about it
— Feb 21, 2025 05:57AM
Larry
is on page 54 of 248
“Versions of the minimalist approach that depend on the perception of affordances are difficult to apply, therefore, to types of thinking behavior that emerge in highly unfamiliar environments.”
— Feb 20, 2025 12:02AM
Larry
is on page 36 of 248
“What Bermúdez calls nonlinguistic thought is just perception!” Really? Does imagistic thinking, empathetic or trial-and-error reasoning look like perception to you?
— Feb 19, 2025 11:35PM
