 The difference between TT and ST can be further illustrated through a nice example given by Stich and Nichols (1992). Suppose that you want to predict the behavior of an airplane in certain atmospheric conditions. You can collect the specifications of the airplane and infer, on the basis of aerodynamic theory, how the airplane will behave. Alternatively, you can build a model of the airplane and run a simulation. The former scenario approximates the way in which TT describes our capacity to represent others’ mental states, while the latter approximates ST. Two points need to be stressed, though. First, while knowledge of aerodynamic theory is explicit, TT says that our knowledge of the Theory of Mind is typically implicit (or tacit). That is, someone who knows aerodynamic theory is aware of the theory’s laws and principles and is able to report them correctly, while the laws and principles constituting one’s Theory of Mind typically lie outside awareness and reportability. Second, when we run a simulation of someone else’s mental states, we do not need to build a model: we are the model—that is, we use our own mind as a model of others’ minds.