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| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Do stage theories discuss when/how children learn strategies? |
| Posted by: | Leslie Smith |
| Date/Time: | 2010/7/11 0:01:24 |
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From the perspective of behaviorism, is it possible to directly investigate the actual thinking... Answer: no - from that perspective, there ain't no such thing as mental acts internal to the mind of the thinker. Compare these parallel cases: From the perspective of Euclidean geometry, is it possible to directly investigate triangles whose internal angles are not 180 degrees... Answer: no [but this is possible in Riemannian geometry] From the perspective of Newtonian physics, is it possible to directly investigate time that is non-current with the time in London, UK at noon tomorrow... Answer: no [but this is possible in Einsteinian phsyics] The choice in each case is the same: either to accept a perspective that has consequence X, whether or not compatible with common sense; or to reject it because consequence X is demonstrably false from an alternative perspective. |