ABSTRACT
A comprehensive account of logical development will have to address two kinds of questions, each on a different scale of time and generality. At the most general level, such an account will have to articulate the course of logical development in the context of cognitive development as a whole; it will also have to describe the control processes that regulate, coordinate, and integrate the various acquisitions that proceed concurrently. At the more specific level, an account of logical development must specify the processes underlying microdevelopmental changes, that is, the course of those specific acquisitions that proceed within the context of more general trends and reorganizations. In doing so, it must specify the interplay between the individual’s intrinsic mechanisms for acquiring and constructing logical knowledge, and the relevant empirical experience.
