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Logical positivists have never taken psychology into account in their epistemology, but they affirm that logical beings and mathematical beings are nothing but linguistic structures.


Jean Piaget

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MOHAMMED BIN RASHID AL MAKTOUM Question Me, I have Logical Reasoning In My Defense.
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