Setayesh Dashti’s Reviews > LOT 2: The Language of Thought Revisited > Status Update
Setayesh Dashti
is on page 197 of 240
“In their deepest heart of hearts, the great majority of psychologists think that talk of “truth” is unscientific (not to say vulgar)… namely it’s got to turn out to be some sort of association, either among ideas or between ideas and the world… and it’s not hard to imagine a machine that can form associations. Imagining such machines is what connectionists do for a living.”
— May 17, 2026 08:16AM
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Setayesh Dashti
is on page 157 of 240
“The ways in which different kinds of things are similar to one another aren’t, in general, similar to one another.”
— May 10, 2026 06:32AM
Setayesh Dashti
is on page 98 of 240
“Tokening M(X) pretty generally doesn’t cause want to think its associates; a good thing to since if it did one thinking would be forever, getting derailed by one’s associations…
your cognitive lexicon isn’t network of associations. It’s a system of files… associationism took the thinking out of thinking…”
Yes and that’s why word2vec models are NOT models of natural language semantics
— Apr 19, 2026 09:30AM
your cognitive lexicon isn’t network of associations. It’s a system of files… associationism took the thinking out of thinking…”
Yes and that’s why word2vec models are NOT models of natural language semantics
Setayesh Dashti
is on page 88 of 240
“THERE IS, AS A MATTER OF PRINCIPLE, NO SUCH THING AS A PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY OF MEANING” (capitalization is from Fodor himself, delightful)
— Apr 15, 2026 01:49PM
