A Categorical Analysis of Large Language Models and Why LLMs Circumvent the Symbol Grounding Problem

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Main Authors: Floridi, Luciano, Jia, Yiyang, Tohmé, Fernando
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Published: 2025
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author Floridi, Luciano
Jia, Yiyang
Tohmé, Fernando
author_facet Floridi, Luciano
Jia, Yiyang
Tohmé, Fernando
contents This paper presents a formal, categorical framework for analysing how humans and large language models (LLMs) transform content into truth-evaluated propositions about a state space of possible worlds W , in order to argue that LLMs do not solve but circumvent the symbol grounding problem.
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spellingShingle A Categorical Analysis of Large Language Models and Why LLMs Circumvent the Symbol Grounding Problem
Floridi, Luciano
Jia, Yiyang
Tohmé, Fernando
Artificial Intelligence
This paper presents a formal, categorical framework for analysing how humans and large language models (LLMs) transform content into truth-evaluated propositions about a state space of possible worlds W , in order to argue that LLMs do not solve but circumvent the symbol grounding problem.
title A Categorical Analysis of Large Language Models and Why LLMs Circumvent the Symbol Grounding Problem
topic Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.09117