"[W]e must steadily bear in mind the sense in which the term "reasoning" is employed. If we apply this term to the process by which an animal, profiting by experience, adapts his actions to somewhat varying circumstances, there can be no hesitation whatever in giving an affirmative answer to the question. ...But there are no grounds for supposing that in the chicken or the horse there is any development of analysis."
Animal cognition

January 1, 1970

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