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    It is not the case that Young infants' object permanence is not solely learned from experience; some cognitive capacity for it is innate or early-developing.

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    • 1.Violation-of-expectation paradigms measure looking time, which may reflect perceptual novelty or statistical learning rather than genuine object permanence representations.
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    • 2.Baillargeon's 'impossible event' findings are consistent with a low-level perceptual continuity mechanism that extrapolates sensory patterns without requiring innate conceptual content.
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    • 3.Distinguishing innate conceptual knowledge from rapidly acquired perceptual regularities requires evidence that current paradigms systematically fail to provide.
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    • 1.Piaget's constructivist account holds that sensorimotor schemas are themselves generative mechanisms: acting on objects builds the invariance representation, so early competence reflects rapid schema construction, not innateness.
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    • 2.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.Infants as young as 4 months demonstrate object permanence.
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    • 2.At 4-5 months, infants have had insufficient experience for such a representation to be learned from scratch.
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    • 3.There is something in the infant's cognitive apparatus sufficient to generate the expectation that hidden objects persist.
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