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> [“From an epistemological perspective, a person is a uniform being who interprets the different parts of her conscious knowledge in a coherent fashion (or at least tries to do this). How do modular theories explain this search for coherence? And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ulrich-m-ller/from-an-epistemological-perspective-a-person-is-a-uniform-being-who/)

[Ulrich Müller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ulrich-m-ller/)

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## More by Ulrich Müller

> [“Because psychologists generally take knowledge as unproblematic, the complexity of Piagetian theory seems simply superfluous.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ulrich-m-ller/because-psychologists-generally-take-knowledge-as-unproblematic-the/)

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> [“the main problem of any epistemology is in fact to understand how the mind succeeds in constructing necessary relationships, which appear to be independent…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ulrich-m-ller/the-main-problem-of-any-epistemology-is-in-fact-to-understand-how-the/)

[Ulrich Müller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ulrich-m-ller/)

> [“Empiricism is not just an empirical method but also a theory of experience. Essentially, it conceives of human beings as passive and sense perception…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ulrich-m-ller/empiricism-is-not-just-an-empirical-method-but-also-a-theory-of/)

[Ulrich Müller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ulrich-m-ller/)

> [“According to Piaget, the central idea of empiricism is that “the function of cognitive mechanisms is to submit to reality, copying its features as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ulrich-m-ller/according-to-piaget-the-central-idea-of-empiricism-is-that-the/)

[Ulrich Müller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ulrich-m-ller/)

> [“Piaget (1961/1966, pp. 152–153) made the same commitments as Kant: Normative properties are required for knowing reality, and so, following Kant, such properties are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ulrich-m-ller/piaget-1961-1966-pp-152-153-made-the-same-commitments-as-kant/)

[Ulrich Müller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ulrich-m-ller/)

> [“Social contexts provide ubiquitous cases of the same point: If one bottle of beer costs £1, six individual bottles may cost £6, whereas a six-pack costs £5.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ulrich-m-ller/social-contexts-provide-ubiquitous-cases-of-the-same-point-if-one/)

[Ulrich Müller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ulrich-m-ller/)

> [“Kant did not explain the origin of these judgments but assumed that they were attained by abstraction from the activity of the soul, which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ulrich-m-ller/kant-did-not-explain-the-origin-of-these-judgments-but-assumed-that/)

[Ulrich Müller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ulrich-m-ller/)

> [“Kant argued that the mind has both receptive capacities and spontaneous capabilities, both operative in human knowledge. For Kant (1787/1933, B74, B93), knowledge has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ulrich-m-ller/kant-argued-that-the-mind-has-both-receptive-capacities-and/)

[Ulrich Müller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ulrich-m-ller/)

> [“Jackson, I. (1987). On situating Piaget’s subject: A triangulation based on Kant, structuralism, and biology. Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 17, 471–486.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ulrich-m-ller/jackson-i-1987-on-situating-piaget-s-subject-a-triangulation-based-on/)

[Ulrich Müller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ulrich-m-ller/)

> [“From an epistemological perspective, a person is a uniform being who interprets the different parts of her conscious knowledge in a coherent fashion (or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ulrich-m-ller/from-an-epistemological-perspective-a-person-is-a-uniform-being-who/)

[Ulrich Müller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ulrich-m-ller/)

> [“As a biologist, Piaget considered cognitive development to be part of a much more general tendency of living systems to grow, change, improve and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ulrich-m-ller/as-a-biologist-piaget-considered-cognitive-development-to-be-part-of/)

[Ulrich Müller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ulrich-m-ller/)

> [“It is important to recall at the outset that by a cognitive equilibrium (which is analogous to the stability of a living organism) we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ulrich-m-ller/it-is-important-to-recall-at-the-outset-that-by-a-cognitive/)

[Ulrich Müller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ulrich-m-ller/)

> [“An excellent overview of the development of Piaget's theory is provided by Chapman (1988) and more specifically about equilibration in a paper from 1992 (Chapman, 1992).”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ulrich-m-ller/an-excellent-overview-of-the-development-of-piaget-s-theory-is/)

[Ulrich Müller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ulrich-m-ller/)

> [“the relevance of epistemology for the study of psychology and psychological development is that epistemological assumptions often remain tacit. Practically, this amounts to many…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ulrich-m-ller/the-relevance-of-epistemology-for-the-study-of-psychology-and/)

[Ulrich Müller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ulrich-m-ller/)

> [“In the preface of his Critique of Pure Reason, Kant (1787/1933, B XVI) refers in the same way to the Copernican Revolution. He points…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ulrich-m-ller/in-the-preface-of-his-critique-of-pure-reason-kant-1787-1933-b-xvi/)

[Ulrich Müller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ulrich-m-ller/)

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