"In genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is never an absolute beginning."

Beginning, Psychology

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"In genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is never an absolute beginning."

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"There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything."

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"Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning."

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"To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness."

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"You cannot skip the beginning and hope to reach the end. You will fall as soon as you get there."

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"The first stage of any development is infancy."

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"I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek."

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"Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues."

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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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"To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active."

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"Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures."

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"Scientific thought, then, is not momentary; it is not a static instance; it is a process."

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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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"The current state of knowledge is a moment in history, changing just as rapidly as the state of knowledge in the past has ever changed and, in many instances, more rapidly."

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"During the earliest stages the child perceives things like a solipsist who is unaware of himself as subject and is familiar only with his own actions."

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"In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact."

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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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