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Evidence from Formal Logical Reasoning Reveals that the Language of Thought is not Natural Language

2025-07-29

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Humans are endowed with a powerful capacity for inductive and deductive logical thought: we easily form generalizations based on a few examples and draw conclusions from known premises. Humans also arguably have the most sophisticated communication system in the animal kingdom: natural language allows us to express complex and structured meanings. Some have therefore argued for a tight relationship between complex...

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3bcbb151-0a34-5f17-98ea-f30ffc853dea
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10.1101/2025.07.26.666979
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