The Reasoning Error About Reasoning: Why Different Types of Reasoning Require Different Representational Structures

ArXi:2603.21736v1 Announce Type: new Different types of reasoning impose different structural demands on representational systems, yet no systematic account of these demands exists across psychology, AI, and philosophy of mind. I propose a framework identifying four structural properties of representational systems: operability, consistency, structural preservation, and compositionality. These properties are demanded to different degrees by different forms of reasoning, from induction through analogy and causal inference to deduction and formal logic.