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- Steven Pinker: What our language habits reveal 17 minutes
You can think of this as the language of thought, or "mentalese."
- Definition summary
- (philosophy, psychology) A hypothetical non-verbal language in which concepts are represented in the mind. [from 1960s]
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How to pronounce mentalese
Steven Pinker: What our language habits reveal 17 minutes

You can think of this as the language of thought, or "mentalese."
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Meaning
- [Noun]
- (philosophy, psychology) A hypothetical non-verbal language in which concepts are represented in the mind. [from 1960s]
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