Is, for example, the formal operation of me writing this question just my brain knowing how to write by following grammatical conventions without focusing on the meaning of the sentences? But how can it be without regard to semantics if I can only write syntactically correctly if I know the meaning of the words I'm using? I understand they don't have any semantic properties, but I can't think of an example of what one would be. I don't really know what formal properties are. Like, what exactly are we talking about? What is an example of something concrete that the mind would process by only accessing a representation's formal properties? I get what he is saying there, but I find it too vague to really understand it. They do not have any access to semantic properties. At least from what I've gathered, the computational theory of mind implies that mental processes only have access to representation's formal properties. I don't really understand the formality condition. I'm reading an excerpt from Fodor's Methodological Solipsism Considered as a Research Strategy in Cognitive Psychology and I find a lot of what he says confusing. Rudytheduck Asks: Fodor's formality condition
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