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I appreciate the fact that you have written quite extensively on the various controversies surrounding developmental epistemology (CRP, NK, JP:CALP), but still, I would like to make sure I understand your thinking on the specific matter of mental activity. Might I ask you the same question I put to MC regarding the observation of mental activity? Do you believe it is possible to observe mental operations, i.e., that it is possible to directly investigate the actual thinking, the mental activity (of the two children I gave as an example from the classification interviews) as it is occurring? Or, (as I think you believe) is the observation of the long formation of mental operations not possible and therefore not able to give us facts of mental activity but only conjectures based on the use of some proxy method that detects their outcomes, effects, or perceivable behaviors?
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