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    It is not the case that The inference from 'insufficient time for learning' to 'must be innate' presupposes a stimulus-response empiricist model of learning that Piagetian and dynamical systems theorists explicitly reject as the only alternative.

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    • 1.Even constructivist learning requires sufficient time for neural structures to develop; biology still constrains learning speed.
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    • 2.Rejecting one learning model doesn't eliminate the original problem: explaining rapid acquisition without prior capacity.
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    • 3.Dynamical systems theories often presuppose innate parameters, attractors, or initial conditions that scaffold learning.
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    • 1.Piaget demonstrated that children actively construct knowledge through interaction, not passive stimulus-response absorption.
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    • 2.Dynamical systems show learning emerges from complex self-organizing processes, not simple environmental input mapping.
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    • 3.The innateness inference illegitimately assumes stimulus-response is the only non-innate learning mechanism available.
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