– How people learn to think logically? Is there any limits to possible logical thinking, depending on age?
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Logic is to learn to attach causality ie associating some outcome with some event in the broadest sense. So even young babies might “learn” to associate certain behaviors with certain outcomes. This develops into things like object permanence which means they “know” that if a cookie is placed in a box, opening the box reveals the cookier. This is all basic logic in action.
Well yes, toddlers can probably not reason logically beyond one or two steps. It would be difficult to teach a formal logic based on symbols and this makes it difficult to describe more complicated manipulation of symbols to demonstrate logic based outcomes.
But to learn things like social norms or even basic counting and vocabulary requires some kind of logical association.
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