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 human languages into ‘head first’ or ‘tail first’, English or Japanese, for example, respectively. Despite the fact that these units could theoretically have numerous compositions that do not and have not existed as a spoken human language.
The implication is that humans are not just designed to speak, but to speak a very certain way with marginal room for variety.
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 human languages into ‘head first’ or ‘tail first’, English or Japanese, for example, respectively. Despite the fact that these units could theoretically have numerous compositions that do not and have not existed as a spoken human language.
The implication is that humans are not just designed to speak, but to speak a very certain way with marginal room for variety.
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.