Jean Piaget

Logic is the mirror of thought, and not vice versa;in classes, relations et nombres; essai sur les groupements de logistique et la réversibilitié de lq pensée ↗

— Jean Piaget

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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. ↗

— Jean Piaget

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Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions. ↗

— Jean Piaget

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Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations. ↗

— Jean Piaget

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I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health. ↗

— Jean Piaget

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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. ↗

— Jean Piaget

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This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge. ↗

— Jean Piaget

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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. ↗

— Jean Piaget

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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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It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth. ↗

— Jean Piaget

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