The development of modal understanding: Piaget's possibility and necessity
New Ideas in PsychologyPublished 1 March 1994
Leslie Smith
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Possibility and Necessity: The Role of POsssibility in Cognitive Development, Vol. 1 by J. Piaget. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1987. (Originally published as Le Possible et le Nécessaire: L'Evolution des Possibles chez L'Enfant. Paris, France: Presses Universitaires de France, 1981.) Possibility and Necessity: The Role of Necessity in Cognitive Development, Vol. 2 by J. Piaget. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1987. (Originally published as Le Possible et le Nécessaire: L'Evolution du Necessaire chez l'Enfant. Paris, France: Presses Universitaires de France, 1983.)
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