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I suggest as follows:?The common ground across the fitting together in art and the issue of logical necessity is the common ground across (a) form in ideas on artistic activity and (b) inter-defined conceptual systems in ideas on knowledge construction.? As to the idea of form in artistic activity, consider the discussion by Schneider of Manet's painting the luncheon. "..the lemon on the table may have been part of the meal but more importantly it answers Manet's need for a spot of yellow."?Elaborating on this idea, one might say that to appreciate the painting more fully one needs to experience the spot of yellow not merely as representing a lemon resting on the table, but as called for by the network of relations among the colors (textures, shapes, etc) within the painting.?To relate art to conceptual reasoning in a deeply constructivist way, we might do well to focus on how this idea of form relates to the idea that a system of inter-defined concepts underlies our experience of the logical power of a deductive argument.? Central to the above suggestion is the idea that it is important to emphasize the phenomenological aspect on both sides--the appreciation of the art work, and the experience of the logical power of a deductive argument.?I consider that this develops Piaget's idea of the feeling of logical necessity in a way that he did not pursue. This line of thinking involves a different/closer orientation of our ideas on perception and and our ideas on cognition to one another than generally found in Piaget's work.?This opens new paths for thinking about the evolution of organisms' experience of the environment in terms of objects (cf. object concept) and its relation to the development of sensory and conceptual experiences both evolutionarily and ontogenetically. (In my view, it also goes against distinctions made between sensory experience and cognition in Kantian literature., which seems to me related to Piaget's way of separating the two.) For some work in this direction, I offer?Becker, J. (2008). Conceptualizing mind and consciousness: Using constructivist ideas to transcend the physical bind.?Human Development, 51, 165-189.