The view that infants possess a full-fledged propositional language-of-thought (LoT) is appealing, providing a unifying account for infants' precocious reasoning skills in many domains. However, careful appraisal of empirical evidence suggests that there is still no convincing evidence that infants possess discrete representations of abstract relations, suggesting that infants' LoT remains incomplete. Parallel arguments hold for perception.
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