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AN excellent book. Dr. Piaget gives a very detailed and comprehensive account of investigation into judgment and reasoning as shown by young children. The book forms a supplement to “Language and Thought of the Child.” The logical and reasoning powers of children are not simply elementary forms of adult logic and reasoning; they are something different. The logic of the child is almost entirely ego-centric; it is more closely allied to the autistic or dereistic type of thinking, a conception which we owe to the psychoanalytic school. The child's powers of reasoning are very limited, and it is not until the age of 11-12 years that anything approaching sound formal reasoning appears.
Judgment and Reasoning in the Child.
Prof.
Jean
Piaget
By, in collaboration with Miles. E. Cartalis, S. Escher, A. Hanhart, L. Hannloser, O. Matthes, S. Perret, and M. Roud. Translated by Marjorie Warden. (International Library of Psychology, Philosophy and Scientific Method.) Pp. viii + 260. (London: Kegan Paul and Co., Ltd.; New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1928.) 10s. 6d. net.
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Judgment and Reasoning in the Child . Nature 122, 958 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122958d0
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