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" To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active. "
Jean Piaget
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" The practice of narrative and argument does not lead to invention, but it compels a certain coherence of thought. "
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" In genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is never an absolute beginning. "
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" In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact. "
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" I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health. "
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" Logical positivists have never taken psychology into account in their epistemology, but they affirm that logical beings and mathematical beings are nothing but linguistic structures. "
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" Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations. "
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" I always like to think on a problem before reading about it. "
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" The self thus becomes aware of itself, at least in its practical action, and discovers itself as a cause among other causes and as an object subject to the same laws as other objects. "
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" Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions. "
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" During the first few months of an infant's life, its manner of taking the breast, of laying its head on the pillow, etc., becomes crystallized into imperative habits. This is why education must begin in the cradle. "
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" From the moral as from the intellectual point of view, the child is born neither good nor bad but master of his destiny. "
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" The main functions of intelligence, that of inventing solutions and that of verifying them, do not necessarily involve one another. The first partakes of imagination; the second alone is properly logical. "
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" Logical activity is not the whole of intelligence. One can be intelligent without being particularly logical. "
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" Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures. "
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" To reason logically is so to link one's propositions that each should contain the reason for the one succeeding it, and should itself be demonstrated by the one preceding it. Or at any rate, whatever the order adopted in the construction of one's own exposition, it is to demonstrate judgments by each other. "
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" Everyone knows that at the age of 11-12, children have a marked impulse to form themselves into groups and that the respect paid to the rules and regulations of their play constitutes an important feature of this social life. "
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" On the one hand, there are individual actions such as throwing, pushing, touching, rubbing. It is these individual actions that give rise most of the time to abstraction from objects. "
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" Scientific thought, then, is not momentary; it is not a static instance; it is a process. "
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" Logical reasoning is an argument which we have with ourselves and which reproduces internally the features of a real argument. "
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