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Full Idea
Might there be some thought token that has a different content than any such token we can in principle have?
Gist of Idea
Do there exist thoughts which we are incapable of thinking?
Source
Thomas Hofweber (Ontology and the Ambitions of Metaphysics [2016], 10.3.3)
Book Ref
Hofweber,Thomas: 'Ontology and the Ambitions of Metaphysics' [OUP 2018], p.268
A Reaction
For me the idea that a thought might exist which can never be thought is an absurdity, but people who believe in the external existence of parts of reality called 'propositions' seem committed to it. A baffling view.