Argument Quote by Jean Piaget

“The practice of narrative and argument does not lead to invention, but it compels a certain coherence of thought.” quote by Jean Piaget — Download Open image

“The practice of narrative and argument does not lead to invention, but it compels a certain coherence of thought.”

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Each time one prematurely teaches a child something he could have discovered himself, that child is kept from inventing it and consequently from understanding…

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The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality.

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Childish egocentrism is, in its essence, an inability to differentiate between the ego and the social environment.

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“A fact is first an answer to a question. If Sartre had consulted psychologists before judging them in the light of his own genius,…

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If logic itself is created rather than being inborn, it follows that the first task of education is to form reasoning.

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Experience precedes understanding.

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Equilibrium is the profoundest tendency of all human activity.

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“To expect a fact, is by definition to expect the isolated, it is for positivism, to prefer the ‘accident’ to the essential, the contingent…

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Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality.

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The majority of parents are poor psychologists and give their children the most questionable moral trainings. It is perhaps in this domain that one…

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As you know, Bergson pointed out that there is no such thing as disorder but rather two sorts of order, geometric and living.

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A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good.

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Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does…

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Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they…

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Any comprehensive doctrine, religious or secular, can be introduced into any political argument at any time, but I argue that people who do this…

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As opposed to getting into arguments about, well, these folks have been treated fairly so now we're going to be doing things that, very…

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There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing racial segregation…

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The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into…

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On the stage, the characters express themselves more through words than images. So the arguments of the characters and the tension between characters -…

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