5.8AIDec 9, 2025
A Categorical Analysis of Large Language Models and Why LLMs Circumvent the Symbol Grounding ProblemLuciano Floridi, Yiyang Jia, Fernando Tohmé
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.