Animal reasoning and proto-logic

Abstract

This chapter examines the concept of animal reasoning and proto-logic. It provides an account of rational processes can be correlated or applied to animals and explains how non-linguistic animals might be rational in the sense of PP-rationality. It explains how analogues of familiar reasoning processes might be possible in the absence of linguistic structure and how it might be possible for non-linguistic animals to reason without exploiting the internal structure of thought or deploying logical concepts.