Psychology Quote by Ulrich Müller

“the main problem of any epistemology is in fact to understand how the mind succeeds in constructing necessary relationships, which appear to be independent of time, if the instruments of thought are merely psychological operations that are subject to evolution and are constituted in time (Piaget…” quote by Ulrich Müller — Download Open image

““the main problem of any epistemology is in fact to understand how the mind succeeds in constructing necessary relationships, which appear to be independent of time, if the instruments of thought are merely psychological operations that are subject to evolution and are constituted in time (Piaget, 1950, p. 23);””

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