Language and Thought: A Critical Appraisal to Wittgenstein and Fodor

Wesleyan Journal of Research 14 (4):142-152 (2021)
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This research explores the critical study of language and thought. It is a response to Wittgenstein and Fodor who believe in priority, superiority, and individuality of language and thought. In this paper, we can resolve this language and thought dichotomy to discuss the concept of priority issue. We shall argue that language and thought are modular concepts inside mind and here are also other modules present in our mind. This paper determines the role of language and thought and their priority in mind. Furthermore, this article shows inconsistency in priority, superiority and individuality. It also explores the role of quantification theory which discusses about the structure of thought and language, as well as about the model logic theory which discusses about the semantic part of language an

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Mudasir Ahmad Tantray
Rani Durgavati University Jabalpur, M.P. India

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