Definition of "mentalese" []

• A hypothetical language in which concepts and propositions are represented in the mind without words. (noun)

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• "Universal "mentalese" is a much more radical, minority view whereas universal grammar is to my mind very well established."
• "Psychology is the study of the mind, and the exclusion of "mentalese" would annihilate the discipline as we know it."
• "Purportedly not directly about imagery, but deals with the closely adjacent topic of mental representations that are inherently perceptual in character, and argues that they are adequate to account for cognition, and explanatorily superior to “amodal” conceptions of representation (such as mentalese) For some recent supporting evidence, that also makes the link with imagery explicit, see Kan et al. (2003), and for some philosophical support see Nyíri (2001) and Prinz (2002)."