Question

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"Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures." - Jean Piaget

> If you think this is true, explain your reasoning.
> If you think this is false, explain your reasoning.

Answer 1

i agree

Answer 2

@BSwan your reasoning?

Answer 3

why do u agree @BSwan o.o

Answer 4

What qualifies something as being a linguistic structure to begin with?

Answer 5

My first example concerns the school of logical positivism. Logical positivists have never taken psychology into account in their epistemology, but they affirm that logical beings and mathematical beings are nothing but linguistic structures. That is, when we are doing logic or mathematics, we are simply using general syntax, general semantics, or general pragmatics in the sense of Morris, being in this case a rule of the uses of language in general. The position in general is that logical and mathematical reality is derived from language. Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures. Now here it becomes pertinent to examine factual findings. We can look to see whether there is any logical behaviour in children before language develops. We can look to see whether the coordinations of their actions reveal a logic of classes, reveal an ordered system, reveal correspondence structures. If indeed we find logical structures in the coordinations of actions in small children even before the development of language, we are not in a position to say that these logical structures are derived from language. This is a question of fact and should be approached not by speculation but by an experimental methodology with its objective findings. -jean piaget

Answer 6

see what he meant by that,
then see if you agree with it
if yes
then you'd be able to explain why
dont you think?