Ep 151: ”Objectivist” ”Epistemology” - The errors of objectivism
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How Children Without Words, Infants, Are Creating Knowledge
It's untestable that we don't know how exactly children without words, infants, are forming knowledge. The very problem with saying that they're starting with something like a concept like length, is your diving straight into the abstract. This is not the concrete. I very much doub that this is one of the first concepts that the child learns at all at all. You might want to talk to a child psychologist. But randa's only imagining this into existence and perhaps she can't imagine more than tis alternative possibilities to this. Now i can't prove that either. She thinks it's abstract concepts like length. What length of all things? The child doesn't have a word for
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