In Genetic Epistemology, As In Developmental Psychology,

This Means That No Single Logic Is Strong Enough To Support The Total Construction Of Human Knowledge.

The Child Who Defines A Lie As Being A "naughty Word" Knows Perfectly Well That Lying Consists In Not Speaking The Truth. He Is Not, Therefore, Mistaking One Thing For Another, He Is Simply Identifying Them One With Another By What Seems To Us A Quaint Extension Of The Word "lie".

During The Earliest Stages Of Thought, Accommodation Remains On The Surface Of Physical As Well As Social Experience.

True Interest Appears When The Self Identifies Itself With Ideas Or Objects, When It Finds In Them A Means Of Expression And They Become A Necessary Form Of Fuel For Its Activity.

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.