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PRONUNCIATION OF MENTALESE

mentalese  [ˌmɛntəlˈiːz] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MENTALESE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Mentalese is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES MENTALESE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Language of thought hypothesis

In philosophy of mind, the language of thought hypothesis put forward by American philosopher Jerry Fodor describes thoughts as represented in a "language" that allows complex thoughts to be built up by combining simpler thoughts in various ways. In its most basic form the theory states that thought follows the same rules as language: thought has syntax. Using empirical data drawn from linguistics and cognitive science to describe mental representation from a philosophical vantage-point, the hypothesis states that thinking takes place in a language of thought: cognition and cognitive processes are only 'remotely plausible' when expressed as a system of representations that is "tokened" by a linguistic or semantic structure and operated upon by means of a combinatorial syntax. Linguistic tokens used in mental language describe elementary concepts which are operated upon by logical rules establishing causal connections to allow for complex thought. Syntax as well as semantics have a causal effect on the properties of this system of mental representations.

Definition of mentalese in the English dictionary

The definition of mentalese in the dictionary is a hypothetical mental system, resembling language, in which concepts, which are pictured without the use of words, may be combined to create more complex concepts.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MENTALESE


Chinese
tʃaɪˈniːz
classes
ˈklæsiːz
dieses
ˈdaɪəsiːz
diplomatese
ˌdɪpləmætˈiːz
disease
dɪˈziːz
ease
iːz
expertise
ˌɛkspɜːˈtiːz
Faeroese
ˌfɛərəʊˈiːz
Faroese
ˌfɛərəʊˈiːz
Genoese
ˌdʒɛnəʊˈiːz
he´s
hiːz
Japanese
ˌdʒæpəˈniːz
keys
kiːz
mise
miːz
misease
ˌmɪsˈiːz
Pekingese
ˌpiːkɪŋˈiːz
please
pliːz
Tongkingese
ˌtɒŋkɪŋˈiːz
Tonkinese
ˌtɒnkɪnˈiːz
unease
ʌnˈiːz

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MENTALESE

mental healing
mental health
mental health care
mental home
mental illness
mental impairment
mental lexicon
mental reservation
mental retardation
mental strain
mentalism
mentalist
mentalistic
mentalistically
mentalities
mentality
mentally
mentally disordered
mentally handicapped
mentally impaired

WORDS THAT END LIKE MENTALESE

Auslese
commercialese
Congolese
criminalese
federalese
forlese
journalese
legalese
Nepalese
novelese
officialese
Senegalese
Singhalese
Sinhalese
Tirolese
Togolese
Tyrolese
vocalese

Synonyms and antonyms of mentalese in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «mentalese» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MENTALESE

Find out the translation of mentalese to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of mentalese from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «mentalese» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

心理语
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

mentalés
570 millions of speakers

English

mentalese
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

mentalese
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

mentalese
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

mentalese
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

mentalês
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

mentalese
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

mentalais
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Mentalese
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

mentalese
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

mentalese
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

mentalese
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Mentalese
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

mentalese
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

mentalese
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मानसिक स्थिती
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Mentalese
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

mentalese
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

mentalese
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

mentalese
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

mentalese
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

mentalese
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

mentalese
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

mentalese
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

mentalese
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of mentalese

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MENTALESE»

The term «mentalese» is used very little and occupies the 187.847 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MENTALESE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about mentalese

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MENTALESE»

Discover the use of mentalese in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to mentalese and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Elm and the Expert: Mentalese and Its Semantics
This book is largely a reconsideration of the arguments that are supposed to ground this consensus.
Jerry A. Fodor, 1995
2
Language and Thought: A Rational Enquiry Into Their Nature ...
The impression is very much of languages as invented systems that make do and come nowhere near the reality of experience.19 In his chapter entitled Mentalese , Pinker (l995. pp.55,82l gives some valid reasons why thought is not like any ...
Amorey Gethin, 1999
3
A Brief Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind
Between the semantic level of intentionality and the "hardware" level — the physical level — of the brain lies the syntactic level of "mentalese," as it is dubbed . Mentalese — the language of thought — has its own set of basic symbols and rules ...
Jack S. Crumley, 2006
4
On Our Minds: How Evolutionary Psychology Is Reshaping the ...
We can see this point more clearly by noting that what Chomsky calls universal grammar Pinker calls mentalese. According to Pinker, mentalese can be defined as “the language of thought.”7 If you understand the term mentalese you ...
Eric M. Gander, 2004
5
Philosophy of Mathematics: Selected Readings
What makes the model of cognitive psychology a cognitive model is that " mentalese" is thought to be a medium whereby the brain constructs an internal representation of the external world. This idea runs immediately into the following  ...
Paul Benacerraf, Hilary Putnam, 1983
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Thought-Contents: On the Ontology of Belief and the ...
Invoking the refined account of Mentalese denotation, we may then characterize the required notion of truth-in-an-agent's-Mentalese via the following principles: First Mentalese Truth Principle. If y is an agent, v is a type i variable of y's ...
Steven E. Boër, 2006
7
A Brief Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind
Between the semantic level of intentionality and the “hardware” level— the physical level—of the brain lies the syntactic level of “mentalese,” as it is dubbed. Mentalese—the language of thought—has its own set of basic symbols and rules for ...
Jack S. Crumley II, 2006
8
Chomsky and His Critics
the language of thought is the same for everyone – a universal “Mentalese.”11 This idea can be represented by amending the above model slightly. We might suppose that each lexical item contains, not merely an I-sound paired with formal  ...
Louise M. Antony, Norbert Hornstein, 2008
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Language and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of ...
So competence in the language requires the competence to think Mentalese sentences with meanings expressible in the language. We will offer, then, a view of competence that depends on the language-of-thought hypothesis. Since that ...
Michael Devitt, Kim Sterelny, 1999
10
Thoughts and Utterances: The Pragmatics of Explicit ...
I follow Jerry Fodor's view that having a thought with a particular content P involves the occurrence (the mental 'tokening', as it is often put) of a sentence of the language of thought (Mentalese) which means that P. I take it that Mentalese is ...
Robyn Carston, 2008

9 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MENTALESE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term mentalese is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Do our languages skew toward happiness?
Or do we have, in addition to our public languages, a kind of private "mentalese," whose words, if they can be called that, carry the true content ... «Christian Science Monitor, Feb 15»
2
Science Is, Undeniably, Making the World a Better Place: A …
Years later, in 2007's The Stuff of Thought, he extended this reasoning to the structures of “mentalese,” the wordless “language of thought” that ... «Pacific Standard, Mar 14»
3
Steven Pinker: 'We don't throw virgins into volcanoes any more'
Years later, in 2007's The Stuff of Thought, he extended this reasoning to the structures of "mentalese," the wordless "language of thought" that ... «CNN, Mar 14»
4
Is brain to brain mind control possible?
Many people imagine that such thought-reading gives researchers a read out in full technicolour mentalese, something like “I would like peas ... «The Conversation, Sep 13»
5
Language Does Not Shape Thought
But there's a big difference between mentalese and conscious imagined or remembered linguistic memories. It's a matter of abstraction levels. «Science 2.0, May 13»
6
On The Concept Of Shaping Thought With Language
Metaphors can be conceptual, used internally with mentalese, not just in language. Or as George Lakoff and Mark Johnson defined it [3]:. «Science 2.0, Feb 13»
7
Embodied Cognition: Our Inner Imaginings of the World Around Us …
Specifically, a mechanism. Mentalese is a specific claim about the machinery people might use for meaning. Embodiment was more of an idea, ... «Scientific American, Dec 12»
8
Words Are Like Icebergs
Pinker says this is sometimes called “mentalese,” and it isn't the same as what we speak. Instead, we translate our thoughts into words, which is ... «World Hum, Sep 10»
9
Poets vs. Critics: Different Brain Systems
... Pinker calls "mentalese" and stimulate speech production systems to turn those mental thoughts or proto-utterances into physical words and ... «Psychology Today, Nov 09»

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