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| | \\ Abduction | Figuring out how things came to be the way they are (or how particular outcomes could be made to come about, or how particular outcomes could be prevented). \\ The //outcome// is given; the work involves everything else. \\ Sherlock Holmes is a genius abducer. | | | \\ Abduction | Figuring out how things came to be the way they are (or how particular outcomes could be made to come about, or how particular outcomes could be prevented). \\ The //outcome// is given; the work involves everything else. \\ Sherlock Holmes is a genius abducer. | |
| | \\ Induction | Figuring out the general case. \\ Making general rules from a (small) set of examples, or from observation, e.g. 'the sun has risen in the east every morning up until now, hence, the sun will always rise in the east.' | | | \\ Induction | Figuring out the general case. \\ Making general rules from a (small) set of examples, or from observation, e.g. 'the sun has risen in the east every morning up until now, hence, the sun will always rise in the east.' | |
| | \\ Analogy | Figuring out how things are similar or different. \\ Making inferences about how something X may be (or is) through a comparison to something else Y, where X and Y share some observed properties. | | | \\ Analogy | Figuring out how things are similar or different. \\ Using the properties of one thing X to characterize the properties of another, Y. \\ Making inferences about how something X might be, through a comparison to something else Y, where X and Y share some observed properties. | |
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| | 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. | | | 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. | | | 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//**. | | | 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//**. | |
