LANGUAGE AND LOGIC OF MIND
LANGUAGE AND LOGIC OF MIND

Summary/Abstract: There is an intriguing disconnect and disengagement between two prominent nativist doctrines of mind. According to one, thinking and other cognitive mental states take place and are couched in an innately endowed language-like symbolic system realized in the brain. The idea is known as the language of thought hypothesis. According to the other doctrine labelled as mental logic hypothesis, there are hardwired reasoning skills and procedures that are cardinally concerned with the information integration processes of a logical sort that all humans share. Yet there remains to be a meaningfully direct and collaborative interaction between these two nativist hypotheses. Thus, the objective of this paper is to see whether a mutually supportive intercourse can be established between them, especially in view of the continuing criticisms that have been levelled against the language of thought hypothesis.

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