Analytic Sentences, Cognition, and Language: Some Links between Current Theories
Analytic Sentences, Cognition, and Language: Some Links between Current Theories

Summary/Abstract: This paper tries to explore possible relations and differences between three kinds of contemporary theories about cognition and language: the approaches supporting the idea that there is a mental logic, the mental models theory, and the frameworks based upon probability logic. That exploration is made here by means of the analytic sentences and the revision of the way each of those types of theories can deal with them. The conclusions seem to show that the three kinds of theories address such sentences in a similar manner, which can mean that there can be more links between them than thought. Thus, it is argued, as a possibility, that the three theories can be accepted at the same time, and that it can be assumed that their differences refer just to the fact that they deal with dif¬ferent aspects of language and cognition. From other points of view, this has already been raised in the literature with regard to the three mentioned theories (especially, with regard to the approaches supporting a mental logic and the mental models theory). However, the point here is double: on the one hand, the link between these theories is now presented from another perspective (the one of the analytic sentences). On the other hand, the paper provides relations between the three frameworks at once from that very perspective and in a systematic way.

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