ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews evidence for one additional, but oft-overlooked type of nonlinguistic representation: analog magnitude representations. It argues that although students don't know enough as of yet to determine whether language of thought hypothesis for animals is true, there is a clearly defined research program into the logical abilities of animals that can help to deliver an answer. The four-cup task has yet to be run on nonhuman animals, but it surely could be in principle. First, animals could succeed on the two-cup task by following the simple heuristic: avoid the empty cup. A second competing explanation of the two-cup task, suggested by S. Mody and S. Carey, is that subjects represent each cup as a possible location of food and then eliminate cup A when it is shown to be empty. When subjects see food hidden in cup A or cup B, they represent the food as maybe in A and maybe in B.
