If social cognition is holistically embedded in practice, isolating 'low-level' mindreading as knowledge-poor presupposes an atomism that begs the question against contextualist accounts.
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(the other key mechanism for language learning in this theory)
The ability to understand what other people are thinking, what they intend to communicate, and why they do things—basically, reading people's minds and intentions.
begging the question(Listed alongside equivocation as an example of a fallacy that highlights important issues in real-life arguing)
A fallacy also known as circular reasoning
knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.
mindreading(Philosophy of mind; simulation theory)
The cognitive capacity to represent others' mental states