In other words, knowledge o... by Jean Piaget, a Swiss Psychologist

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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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Name: Jean Piaget

Nationality: Swiss

Date of Birth: Aug 9, 1896

Date of Death: Sep 16, 1980

Profession: Psychologist

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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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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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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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