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What does it mean to say that thoughts are sentences in a language of
thought? Consider the thought that Marcel has a monkey. Just as the
sentence ‘Marcel has a monkey’ is built up out of linguistic symbols that
have particular contents—for example, the word ‘Marcel’ refers to Marcel
and ‘monkey’ refers to monkeys—the advocate of the language of thought
claims that the thought that Marcel has a monkey is also built up out of
symbols that have particular contents. Thinking that Marcel has a monkey
involves tokening mental symbols that refer to Marcel, monkeys and the
having relation in such a way that, taken together, these symbols form a
structured representation with the content
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