Relational core cognition is for understanding the meaning of social life, not just enduring interpersonal...

Understanding innate core cognition for social relations as a deep, generative social grammar that helps solve the learnability problem of discovering who relates to whom in what ways "amounts to asking how human social life is understandable, and hence possible" (Thomsen & Carey, , p.17). Expanding the focus beyond enduring interpersonal relationships allows us to understand how social and societal meaning (e.g., in ideology) reflect fundamental forms of relational coordination ultimately grounded in cross-species affordances.