Genetic Epistemology pdf von Jean Piaget
aVXenetic epistemology attempts to explain knowledge, and in particular scientific knowledge, on the basis of its history, its sociogenesis, and especially the psychological ori gins of the notions and operations upon which it is based. These notions and operations are drawn in large part from common sense, so that their origins can shed light on their significance as knowledge of a somewhat higher level. But genetic epistemology also takes into account, wherever pos sible, formalization—in particular, logical formalizations ap plied to equilibrated thought structures and in certain cases to transformations from one level to another in the develop ment of thought