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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.

Reflective Abstraction, However, Is Based Not On Individual Actions But On Coordinated Actions.

In Other Words, Knowledge Of The External World Begins With An Immediate Utilisation Of Things, Whereas Knowledge Of Self Is Stopped By This Purely Practical And Utilitarian Contact.

The Self Thus Becomes Aware Of Itself, At Least In Its Practical Action, And Discovers Itself As A Cause Among Other Causes And As An Object Subject To The Same Laws As Other Objects.

As Far As The Game Of Marbles Is Concerned, There Is Therefore No Contradiction Between The Egocentric Practice Of Games And The Mystical Respect Entertained For Rules. This Respect Is The Mark Of A Mentality Fashioned, Not By Free Cooperation Between Equals, But By Adult Constraint.