%0 Journal Article %T The role of language in transcending core knowledge. %A Carey S %J Behav Brain Sci %V 47 %N 0 %D 2024 Jun 27 %M 38934434 %F 21.357 %R 10.1017/S0140525X23003060 %X What Babies Know (WBK) argues that core knowledge has a unique place in cognitive architecture, between fully perceptual and fully conceptual systems of representation. Here I argue that WBK's core knowledge is on the perception side of the perception/cognition divide. I discuss some implications of this conclusion for the roles language learning might play in transcending core knowledge.