sententialism

sententialism

English

Etymology

sentential +‎ -ism

Noun

sententialism (uncountable)

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   • 1989, J. Christopher Maloney, The Mundane Matter of the Mental Language (page 111)

     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, […]

   • 2015, Richard John Kosciejew, The Pursuing Presence of Facts

     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: […]

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