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International Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Philosophy at Wuhan University, specializing in philosophy of language, metaphysics, and philosophical logic.
LLMs trained on nothing but linguistic data could in principle possess all concepts and thus genuinely understand what they're saying, even when speaking about such things as colors and tastes, guilt and folly, life and death.
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Ryan Simonelli, “Sapience without Sentience: An Inferentialist Approach to LLMs,” Asian Journal of Philosophy, archived March 9, 2026.
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AI Verified Simonelli explicitly argues LLMs could genuinely understand, directly supporting the statement. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 49min ago
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AI Verified PhilArchive/PhilPapers abstract for Simonelli's March 2026 paper contains the quoted claim that LLMs could genuinely understand. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 50min ago
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