Primitive Concepts Underlying Verbs of Thought. AIM-162

In order to create conceptual structures that will uniquely and
unambiguously represent the meaning of an utterance, it is necessary
to establish 'primitive' underlying actions and states into which
verbs can be mapped. This paper presents analyses of the most common
mental verbs in terms of such primitive actions and states. In order
to represent the way people speak about their mental processes, it
was necessary to add to the usual ideas of memory structure the
notion of Immediate Memory. It is then argued that there are only
three primitive mental ACTs.