Mentalese

English Noun - s en mentalese. en w:Wilfrid Sellars Notes on Intentionality w:The Journal of Philosophy New York, N.Y. The Journal of Philosophy 12 November 1964 LXI 21 657 10.2307/2023043 0022-362X 2023043 1088815334 The concept of a proposition as something that can be expressed by sentences in both Mentalese and, say, English is an analogical extension of the concept of a proposition as something that can be expressed by sentences in both English and German. en P. G. Patel The Left Parieto-temporo-occipital Junction, Semantic Aphasia and Language Development around Age Seven Linguistics: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Language Sciences Berlin; New York, N.Y. Mouton de Gruyter 1977 15 196 45 10.1515/ling.1977.15.196.35 0024-3949 1026527488 Translationists are said to treat the coding of thoughts in ‘Mentalese’, whose structure is already known, into a natural language, just like translating a natural language, say Russian, in terms of another known language, say English (G 282). Incorporationists point out the circularity of (36b) because Mentalese, supposed to be intrinsically intelligible, is just English or some other variety of a natural language, and the translation maneuver only postpones the problem, en Peter Carruthers The Case for Massively Modular Models of Mind The Architecture of the Mind: Massive Modularity and the Flexibility of Thought Oxford w:Oxford University Press 2006 section 6 (The Argument from Computational Tractability) 51 https://books.google.com/books?id=XMK3f7XZ6JUC&pg=PA51 978-0-19-920708-4 [I]t is probably misleading to talk about the language of thought, or to talk about ‘Mentalese’, as if it were a single representational system. We should more properly, in the context of a thesis of massive mental modularity, talk about languages of thought, or Mentaleses.