Condillac

Some creatures demonstrably reason without having a language that treats of the subject about which they reason. And even when reasoning indeed corresponds to “language well arranged”, the word “well” is carrying a mighty weight; really, to arrange words well in such cases is to make the arrangement reasonable. (Arranging them well in other cases would be stirring of the emotions, or conforming to some artificial challenge as in a game, or writing a program.) Do we really gain much in saying that reasoning is (in some cases) arranging words reasonably?