Re: All the way with Piaget (fwd)

Dewey Dykstra, Jr. (dykstrad who-is-at bsumail.idbsu.edu)
Thu, 7 May 1998 21:25:11 -0600

>Dewey-- to help me along, are Einstein, Schrodinger and Amdal
>radical constructivists?
>mike

My guess is probably not if you look closely at other pronouncements and
actions they have taken, but what they have said in these quotations seem
to express ideas which cast "knowledge" in the light that makes most sense
to me and in a way that appears to me to be consistent with what I
understand to be radical constructivism.

Dewey

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"Physical concepts are the free creations of the human mind and
are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external
world."--A. Einstein in The Evolution of Physics with L. Infeld,
1938.
"Every [person's] world picture is and always remains a construct
of [their] mind and cannot be proved to have any other existence."
--E. Schrodinger in Mind and Matter, 1958.
"Don't mistake your watermelon for the universe." --K. Amdahl in
There Are No Electrons, 1991.
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