What is it about?
Vico was very clear about the limits of knowledge, he said that we make what we know. Implicit in this is that we only know what we have made so our knowledge of "the world" is limited. Piaget's theory implies this too.
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Why is it important?
It's important because people take the world for granted and then arguments about the world become demands to agree with the speaker's world view. If we were all aware of how we each have partial knowledge we would be more willing to accept different visions of the world. Not that this means that we will accept other visions that we find unacceptable.
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It's important because so many have extreme views that they seem to want to impose. I think we need to listen to each other more.
Dr Hugh Gash
Dublin City University
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This page is a summary of: Vico’s Theory of Knowledge and Some Problems in Genetic Epistemology, Human Development, January 1983, Karger Publishers,
DOI: 10.1159/000272866.
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