mentalese

American  

[men-tl-eez, -ees] / ˌmɛn tlˈiz, -ˌis /

noun

1. the language of thought; thoughts represented in the mind without words, especially complex thoughts built from simpler ones.

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Example Sentences

What 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.

From Scientific American

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

From Scientific American

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

From Salon

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.

From Salon

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

From Salon