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Conscious Thinking: Language or Elimination?

Author(s) -

Carruthers Peter

Publication year - 1998

Publication title -

mind and language

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.905

H-Index - 68

eISSN - 1468-0017

pISSN - 0268-1064

DOI - 10.1111/1468-0017.00087

Subject(s) - eliminative materialism , argument (complex analysis) , epistemology , philosophy , natural (archaeology) , cognitive science , philosophy of mind , natural language , philosophy of language , psychology , linguistics , metaphysics , chemistry , biochemistry , archaeology , history

Do we conduct our conscious propositional thinking in natural language? Or is such language only peripherally related to human conscious thought‐processes? In this paper I shall present a partial defence of the former view, by arguing that the only real alternative is eliminativism about conscious propositional thinking. Following some introductory remarks, I shall state the argument for this conclusion, and show how that conclusion can be true. Thereafter I shall defend each of the three main premises in turn.

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