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“Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures.”
 
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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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