Do nonlinguistic creatures deploy mental symbols for logical connectives in reasoning?

Behav Brain Sci

Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA,

Published: September 2023

Some nonlinguistic systems of representation display of the six features of a language-of-thought (LoT) delineated by Quilty-Dunn et al. But they conjecture something stronger: That all six features cooccur homeostatically in nonlinguistic thought. Here I argue that there is no good evidence for nonlinguistic deductive reasoning involving the disjunctive syllogism. Animals and prelinguistic children probably do not make logical inferences.

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