Prepositions

Question 1

Pace

Answer 1

With all due respect to, with the permission of

1. The Piagetian notion of “constructing” a piecemeal ascending succesion of genuinely more and more powerful logics by means of abstraction, generalization, and new assemblages of concepts, via hypothesis testing and learning, is untenable. So is the idea of a transfer from some other (non-semantic) source (pragmatics, usage, general intelligence, constraints satisfaction, social exchanges, etc.). Pace several authors who claim this to be the case, Jerry rightly qualifies it as a miraculous solution.