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

Artificial Intelligence 2025-12-11 v1

Abstract

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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@article{arxiv.2512.09117,
  title  = {A Categorical Analysis of Large Language Models and Why LLMs Circumvent the Symbol Grounding Problem},
  author = {Luciano Floridi and Yiyang Jia and Fernando Tohmé},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.09117},
  year   = {2025}
}