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"In genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is never an absolute beginning."
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"I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health."


"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."


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


"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."


"From this time on, the universe is built up into an aggregate of permanent objects connected by causal relations that are independent of the subject and are placed in objective space and time."


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


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


"Logical positivists have never taken psychology into account in their epistemology, but they affirm that logical beings and mathematical beings are nothing but linguistic structures."


"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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