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Yanwen Wu – Child Development Perspectives, 2025
Counterfactual reasoning is the ability to reason about how the world might have been if past events or states had been different. It is helpful for making sense of past experiences to create future blueprints. Languages like English apply subjunctive forms to directly mark counterfactual premises. In contrast, Chinese does not apply subjunctive…
Descriptors: Logical Thinking, Abstract Reasoning, Thinking Skills, Cognitive Development

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