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This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge.
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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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Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher.
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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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The first type of abstraction from objects I shall refer to as simple abstraction, but the second type I shall call reflective abstraction, using this term in a double sense.
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Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next.
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To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active.
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In genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is never an absolute beginning.
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The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly.
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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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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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Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations.
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Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures.
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Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality.
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It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.
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