But intelligence arguably requires not only the ability to converse but the ability to integrate the content of language into the rest of one's psychology for example, to recognize objects and to engage in practical reasoning, modifying one's behaviour in the light of changes in one's beliefs and preferences.
Context is vitally important in conceptualizing the construct and specifying the content of language learning, teaching, and assessment.
Whether or not he should be regarded as such, it is clear that Leibniz, like contemporary cognitive scientists, saw an intimate connection between the form and content of language, and the operations of the mind.
In contrast, Stalnaker holds that the propositional content of language and thought depends in part on external facts to which subjects have no privileged apriori access and it varies according to contingent explanatory interests.
The latter two strata are the expression form of language and hold a very different realizational relation between each other and with the other strata than those of semantics and lexicogrammar, which are the content of language.
"Changes in the tone, cadence, and pitch of an individual's voice, for example, may reveal the process of thinking and reasoning while it is happening, thereby conveying the presence of mental capacity more clearly than would the semantic content of language alone," the researchers write.
More generally, Hamann's metacritique provides Benjamin with a sense of the hypocrisy of the Kantian separation of understanding and sensibility on the basis of an empty and purely formal notion of pure reason, which can itself only be postulated according to the concrete, aesthetic content of language.
Second, one might challenge the background assumption that one-dimensional possible world semantics, with its coarse-grained representation of truth-conditions as functions mapping possible worlds to truth-values, is the best way to characterize the content of language and thought.
