The Language and Thought of the Child

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Read Books Ltd, 2011 M03 23 - 272 pages
The importance of this remarkable work deserves to be doubly emphasized, for its novelty consists both in the results obtained and in the method by which they have been reached. How does the child think. How does he speak. What are the characteristics of his judgment and of his reasoning. For half a century the answer has been sought to these questions which are those which we meet with at the very threshold of child psychology. If philosophers and biologists have bent their interest upon the soul of the child, it is because of the initial surprise they experienced at his logic and speech. In proof of this, we need only recall the words of Taine, of Darwin and of Egger, which are among the first recorded in the science of child logic.
 

Contents

PREFACE
CHAPTER
Conclusions
CHAPTER II
Check of the coefficient of egocentrism 2 Types of conversation between
The method of experiment 2 Parcelling out the material 3 Numerical results
Verbal syncretism 2 Syncretism of reasoning 3 The need for justification
THE QUESTIONS OF A CHILD OF
Questions not expressed under the form why
Conclusions
APPENDIX

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