Some convergences between formal and genetic analyses

pp. 259-280

in: Jean Piaget, Evert W. Beth, Mathematical epistemology and psychology, Berlin, Springer, 1974

Abstract

In this chapter I want to give one or two examples of the convergence between genetic and axiomatic investigations, since such examples can show how certain general results of formal analysis are psychologically explicable if based on what we know of the subject's activities.