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The concept of cognitive structure is central to those theories of thought that emerged as a result of the critical evaluation of the studies on developmental psychology and epistemology of the Geneva group around Jean Piaget. It denotes developmental stages of logico-mathematical structures of thinking which—based on empirical observations and experiments—were genetically reconstructed in this area of investigation.1 The considerations to be presented here deal with a particularly controversial question: What is the importance of the material representation of cognitive structures with regard to their ontogenetic and phylogenetic development and how should the representation be defined empirically and theoretically.
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Damerow, P. (1996). Representation and Meaning. In: Abstraction and Representation. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 175. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8624-5_2
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