No worries thanks for engaging. Regarding the language of thought hypothesis; any proponent of the hypothesis would readily admit that many of forms/methods of logic exist in cognition. The interesting finding is that all languages seem to share a 'universal grammar' which is broken down further than 'subject, verb, noun' but instead into 'Heads, tails, qualifiers, modifiers' and potentially other units I'm still unfamiliar with. Looking at languages like this coincidentally (or perhaps too conveniently depending on ones opinion) allows you two divide all ... (read more)
I suspect that that may be because that's actually a really fundamental way for words to work and anything that invents words even if it isn't human would invent words that work more or less the same way; it's also possible it's an artifact of something unique about us.
No worries thanks for engaging. Regarding the language of thought hypothesis; any proponent of the hypothesis would readily admit that many of forms/methods of logic exist in cognition. The interesting finding is that all languages seem to share a 'universal grammar' which is broken down further than 'subject, verb, noun' but instead into 'Heads, tails, qualifiers, modifiers' and potentially other units I'm still unfamiliar with. Looking at languages like this coincidentally (or perhaps too conveniently depending on ones opinion) allows you two divide all ... (read more)