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What is a key characteristic of the representational system underlying human thought?
What is a key characteristic of the representational system underlying human thought?
- Visual-like
- Similar to spoken human languages (correct)
- Non-compositional
- Symbolic and arbitrary
Why does Fodor argue that thought must have syntactic tokens capable of expressing propositional meanings?
Why does Fodor argue that thought must have syntactic tokens capable of expressing propositional meanings?
- As cognition is productive and requires the ability to entertain an indefinitely large number of semantically distinct thoughts (correct)
- To restrict the number of semantically distinct thoughts
- Because cognition is unproductive
- Due to the non-systematic nature of thoughts
What is the dominant approach to treating language according to the text?
What is the dominant approach to treating language according to the text?
- Non-symbolic view with concrete symbols and no syntactic rules
- Complete absence of symbols in language
- Symbolic view with abstract symbols combined by syntactic rules (correct)
- Direct representation without symbolic manipulation
What does the concept CAT encompass in terms of neural representation?
What does the concept CAT encompass in terms of neural representation?
How does the brain store the meaning of words and concepts according to the text?
How does the brain store the meaning of words and concepts according to the text?
What activates the concept of CAT besides directly seeing or hearing a cat?
What activates the concept of CAT besides directly seeing or hearing a cat?
What types of words are mentioned in the text as being distinct in many ways?
What types of words are mentioned in the text as being distinct in many ways?
Which type of morphemes are most commonly associated with expressing lexical meaning?
Which type of morphemes are most commonly associated with expressing lexical meaning?
What is the hardest part of identifying morphemes according to the text?
What is the hardest part of identifying morphemes according to the text?
What can be used to express the concept of 'number' lexically?
What can be used to express the concept of 'number' lexically?
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