Unsaid thoughts: Thinking in the absence of verbal logical connectives.

language learnability lexicalisation logical connectives thought

Journal

Frontiers in psychology
ISSN: 1664-1078
Titre abrégé: Front Psychol
Pays: Switzerland
ID NLM: 101550902

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
2022
Historique:
received: 05 06 2022
accepted: 06 09 2022
entrez: 17 10 2022
pubmed: 18 10 2022
medline: 18 10 2022
Statut: epublish

Résumé

Combining two thoughts into a compound mental representation is a central feature of our verbal and non-verbal logical abilities. We here approach this issue by focusing on the contingency that while natural languages have typically lexicalised only two of the possible 16 binary connectives from formal logic to express compound thoughts-namely, the coordinators

Identifiants

pubmed: 36248533
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.962099
pmc: PMC9554482
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

962099

Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2022 Lobina, Demestre, García-Albea and Guasch.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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Auteurs

David J Lobina (DJ)

Psycholinguistics Research Group, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain.

Josep Demestre (J)

Department of Psychology and Research Center for Behavior Assessment, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain.

José E García-Albea (JE)

Department of Psychology, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain.

Marc Guasch (M)

Department of Psychology and Research Center for Behavior Assessment, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain.

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