Judgment and Reasoning in the Child

Download or read book Judgment and Reasoning in the Child written by Jean Piaget and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Childish reasoning is less deductive than ours and less rigorous, for logic is the art of proof. How are we to enquire into the nature of logical relations in children? The method employed in the present work consists in seeing how a child behaves when confronted with those conjunctions denoting causality or logical relations (because, for, therefore, etc.) Some deeply interesting results and conclusions are reached by this method of observation in a book which should appeal strongly to all those in any way connected with children.