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Author’s Introduction

1. In this chapter, I shall be examining an argument for the language of thought hypothesis – an argument which, in earlier work (Davies, 1992; see also 1991), I have called ‘Aunty’s own argument for the language of thought’. That will be the business of Sections 2-5.
2. In the final section, I shall briefly mention some points of contact between this argument for the language of thought (LOT) hypothesis and the hypothesis that is the topic of "Carruthers (Peter) - Language, Thought and Consciousness", which I shall call the thinking in natural language (TNL) hypothesis.
3. Before beginning on Aunty’s own argument, however, I shall briefly present a framework for organising questions about the relative priority of thought and language.