ABSTRACT
The premise underlying the argument in this chapter is that our acquisition of reasoning about the relation of mind to reality is a special case of the fact that we are a species that is innately impelled to invest heavily in symbolic communication. The need to be explicit about assumptions concerning communication has been made clear in the work of some researchers in the acquisition of reasoning about the mind (Dunn, 1994; Hobson, 1993; Shatz, 1994). Accounts of conceptual change have to explain the learnability problem of reasoning about communicable mental realities. In this chapter, three points are put together to provide a perspective on the learnability problem.
