Sentence examples for thought hypothesis from inspiring English sources
Fodor himself holds that what our mental images represent is determined by an associated description couched in mentalese, an innate, unconscious, computational "language of thought" (Fodor, 1975) (see: language of thought hypothesis); others, such as Kaufmann (1980), apparently think that the necessary descriptions may be couched in the natural language that the imager speaks.
Nor (pace Bermúdez) would its failure to do so mean "that the language of thought hypothesis cannot provide a straightforward solution to the problem of explaining the thoughts of non-linguistic creatures".
Bermúdez himself remarks that "as a hypothesis about the machinery of cognition, the language of thought hypothesis is under no obligation to provide its own epistemology".
These assumptions follow from the language of thought hypothesis.
(See the SEP entry for the language of thought hypothesis).
According to the language of thought hypothesis (see the entry on the language of thought hypothesis), our cognition proceeds rather like such a robot's.
Du Châtelet thinks hypotheses are useful (in addition to their providing a necessary step in scientific method) because "when a hypothesis is once posed, experiments are often done to ascertain if it is a good one, experiments which would never have been thought of without it" (IP §58).
I thought this hypothesis worth analyzing, so I did a little back-testing about Google and Twitter (as proxies for startups that were breakout successes).
89 Initially, it was thought the hypothesis of a PCSK9 role in LDLr degradation in the cell surface.
If there were a true hypothesis about the limits that basic English vocabulary and constructions puts on what English speakers can think, the hypothesis would turn out to be inexpressible in English, using basic vocabulary and the usual repertoire of constructions.
Bond also stated that "the homicidal impulse may have developed from a revengeful or brooding condition of the mind, or that religious mania may have been the original disease but I do not think either hypothesis is likely".
