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This needs to be a well-defined psychological principle. I do stuff like this all the time (programming.dev)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I think you would call this transductive reasoning. Rather than using information to put together a theory and work off that theory you work directly off the evidence

for example hearing a bell and dinner being ready and coming to associate the bell with dinner without ever learning why the bell means dinner

found pie in the bush, there might be pie in that bush