Genesis produces genuinely new characteristics at each stage, so a mental state is not the sum of the experiences giving rise to it¶

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q1 i? Developmental change is not mere recombination of unchanging elements; wholes and parts called by the same name differ at each stage of development. → E. A. Kirkpatrick 1910

Evidence¶

E. A. Kirkpatrick 1910¶

E. A. Kirkpatrick. (1910). The Point of View of Genetic Psychology. The Journal of Educational Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0074078

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A philosophical argument about the nature of developmental change, illustrated by the organic analogy. The article presents it as a conceptual point needed to understand the genetic idea, not as an empirical finding.

"the progress of genesis in organisms and in mind is one in which new characteristics are constantly appearing, so that both whole and parts that are called by the same name are really different in each stage of development. No mental state is the sum of the experiences giving rise to it, just as no vegetable is the sum of the chemical elements of which it is composed."

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