When1: 1975
When2: 2000
Who: Jerry A. Fodor [Fodor, Jerry A.]
What: linguist
Where: USA
works\ Language of Thought [1975]; RePresentations [1981]; Modularity of Mind [1983]; Psychosemantics [1987]; Theory of Content and Other Essays [1990]; Holism: A Shopper's Guide [1992: with Ernest Lepore]; ELM and the Expert: Mentalese and its Semantics [1994]; Concepts [1998]; In Critical Condition [2000]; Mind Doesn't Work That Way [2000]
Detail: He lived 1935 to ?. Putnam and Chomsky influenced him. He developed projection rules to try to formalize semantics and model semantic relations by syntax {proof theory, Fodor}. Brains think using symbol system with syntax and semantics {language of thought, Fodor} {mentalese, Fodor}.
However, mental language must also have meaning and syntax. If mental language is meaningful, then regular language is meaningful, so why have mental language.
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