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
well my sex ed consisted of a man who would later that year get fired for hitting a student telling us that premarital sex will result in pregnancy and then having us perform a play I can only describe as racially charged about the subject
after being fired he went on to become a far right politician
I wonder why they might be nostalgic
homeless people are tankies actually
also you might not be replaceable but your manager might be an idiot
bidmas
brackets, index (powers), division, multiplication, addition, subtraction.
brackets are always first that’s the whole point of brackets