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Personalizing the demands of reason
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 April 2020
Abstract
Children come to joint action with a generalized sense of “reason,” which carries normative implications, before personalizing reasons. A general sense of ought precedes specific notions of individual perspective.
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