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 =====Reasoning & Cognition=====
 |  Working Memory \\ (WM)  | The part of the cognitive apparatus that holds the contents of what is being thought of at any moment. \\ The psychologist George Miller proposed that human WM can hold 7+/-2 "chunks".   \\ What are 'chunks'? That is a name for whatever that which can be **stored in WM** and takes up no more than **one** of its seven (plus-minus two) slots.     |
-|  Ampliative Reasoning  | A name for using all reasoning processes discretionarily, as needed, together in the same system or for the same purpose.   |
+|  Ampliative Reasoning  | A name for using all reasoning processes discretionarily, as needed, together in the same system or for a target purpose.   |
 |  Subliminal Cognition  | A name for cognitive processes that cannot be probed through introspection.   |
 |  Introspection  | A name for the cognitive activity of an individual that looks at the contents of its own mind (whether it involves contents at the present time or contents that it had in the past), for reporting to others or for **//thinking about thinking//**.   |