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Loosely based on my presidential address, ‘Whereof One Cannot Speak ...’ delivered to the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology (London, Ontario, May 1982). Unfortunately, the jokes had to be omitted in this version. For reprints write the author at the Department of Psychology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5C2.
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Pylyshyn, Z.W. What's in a mind?. Synthese 70, 97–122 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00414028
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