This (LAT) is the model of thought that equates linguistic meaning with thought/proposition. It is acclaimed in the Western tradition, controversial in China, and historically rejected in ancient India. According to LAT, a thought or proposition is the same as a certain kind of linguistic meaning, which may be true or false. This renders thought anthropocentric but also communitarian, as language is a resource that holds human community identity together. Moreover, as the linguistic features of an expression (semantics, syntax, and pragmatics) encode formative beliefs of a linguistic culture and require adherence to these beliefs for proper linguistic usage, it is an account of thought that collapses propositions with propositional attitudes, like belief. This renders LAT an irrational model of thought. LAT makes translation inexplicable, as it treats translation as matching of sentences across languages on the basis of synonymy, which is often lacking. LAT-based traditions have a history of colonization and genocidal interaction with peoples with differing ethnolinguistic identities that are predictable and foreseeable outcomes of its limitations.