心理逻辑理论:心理语言假设和推理角色语义学的实证研究范式(英文)

Mental Logic Theory: A Paradigmatic Case for Empirical Research on the Language of Thought and Inferential Role Semantics

据Fodor[15]和Fodor&Pylyshyn[12]提出的"心理语言假设"认为,思维是以心理语言进行的;心理语言有一个由逻辑句法和逻辑语义组成的表征格式。据此而论,思维可以看作是这些表征的句法运算。本文认为,这一系统的语义表征可以很好地由推理角色语义学来说明,而Braine和O’Brien[3]的心理逻辑理论可以为心理语言运行的实证研究提供一个研究范式。

The Language of Thought Hypothesis, which follows from proposals of Fodor[ 15 ] and Fodor and Pylyshyn [ 12], proposes that thinking takes place in a mental language, which has a representational format consisting both of a logical syntax and a logical semantics. Thinking thus can be conceived of as a set of syntactic operations on such representations. We argue that the semantics of such a system is best provided by an inference role semantics and that the mental logic theory of Braine and O＇ Brien [ 3 ] can provide a paradigmatic case study in how the empirical inves- tigation of the language of thought can proceed.