Dr Palma, to add an author who might have shed some light on our little
problem: Jerry A Fodor, still alive. The author of Language of Thought (1975,
I believe). I was playing devil’s advocate, extending his ideas that I do not
necessarily subscribe to. Nevertheless, I do believe that whenever we think we
might think about what we think that should be viewed as a meta stance towards
a (language of) thought. Which is preconscious, mostly, just like we drive our
car from point A to point B, never actively or consciously thinking about what
we have done. So I reckon that we just may possess the same ability to mull
over what we think. I could be wrong, utterly wrong, of course. Enjoy your
Monday.
Djordje Vidanovic
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On Mar 19, 2017, at 11:11 AM, Adriano Palma <Palma@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dear Dr Djordje, in one sense it is trivially true: assuming there is a
medium of thinking -- one may call that a language-- any consideration OF
thinking is a metalanguage.
In such a view, e.g., memory is a metalanguage
I suggest
Proust M
Proust J
Koriat A
The 1st the long dead famous French artist, the others alive and working on
METAcognition, precisely what you suggest
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I believe that the moment one starts to think about possible answers to this,
one is involved in a metalanguage of thinking (about a language of thought).
Humans do that all the time, unconsciously or rather preconsciously.
Djordje
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On Mar 17, 2017, at 1:39 PM, -tor <phatic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:------------------------------------------------------------------
Can there be a metalanguage of thinking?
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always come back again to this. It is necessary both to say and to
think that being is; for it is possible that being is, and it is
impossible that not-being is; this is what I bid thee ponder." -- The
Goddess of Parmenides
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