  Our point is that the Core Cognition approach retains this distinctively Rationalist emphasis on understanding.  Core systems like our intuitive physics and theory of mind help us construct models of the world based on innate abstract frameworks.  By deploying these theories we can go beyond the input patterns and come to understand not just how things look, but also what they are, why they are as they are, why they change in the ways they do, how things might be if relevant parameters were different, and so on.  When the baby sees triangles pushing a square up a hill, she constructs a rich conceptualization of the scene that breaks things up into different kinds of elements, and assigns properties to the elements; properties involving agency, physical object, goals, private intentions, information states, rationality, number, shape, etc..  She can use this conceptualization—her intuitive theory—to understand the dynamics of what she sees and in that way make sense of the situation.