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Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures.

- Jean Piaget

Other quotes by Jean Piaget

Knowledge

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

Knowledge

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.

- Jean Piaget

Knowledge

Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next.

- Jean Piaget

Knowledge

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

- Jean Piaget

Action

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

Actions

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

- Jean Piaget

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