... our species and intimately related to our ability to express and communicate thoughts in a public language – though, rather than say that language depends on thought or thought on language, as ... said to possess concepts, see Nick Chater and Cecilia Heyes, ‘Animal Concepts: Content and Discontent’, Mind and Language (1994), pp 209–46 Thought and language 183 reason to suppose that they ... relation between thought and language, this time about what connection there is, if any, between our capacity to think and our capacity to express and communicate our thoughts in a public language, ...