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transductive reasoning

transductive reasoning

the tendency of a child in the preoperational stage of cognitive development to see a connection between unrelated instances, using neither deductive nor inductive means to do so. For example, the child might say, I haven’t had my nap, so it isn’t afternoon. [proposed by Jean Piaget]

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