Abstract:Mathematics and logic are indispensable in science, yet how they are deployed and why they are so effective, especially in the natural sciences, is poorly understood. In this paper, I focus on the how by analysing Jean Piaget's application of mathematics to the empirical content of psychological experiment; however, I do not lose sight of the application's wider implications on the why. In a case study, I set out how Piaget drew on the stock of mathematical structures to model psychological content, namely, th… Show more
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