mentalese

������ all of this means, not to be too cute about it, is that the Mentalese theory that meaning is about the relation of definitions to real things in the world will only work when pigs fly.

Mentalese is a specific claim about the machinery people might use for meaning.

In other words, we might be thinking using something like a language of thought or Mentalese.

But even if Mentalese gets us out of the vicious circle of words defined in terms of other words, it still only gets us part way to meaning.

According to the language of thought hypothesis, the words of Mentalese are related to the world through a symbolic relationship.