الكتاب عنوانه :
The Philosophical Baby: What Children's Minds Tell Us About Truth, Love, and the Meaning of Life
by Alison Gopnik, a professor of psychology at the University of California at Berkeley

تقول المؤلفة عالمة النفس :
children have everyday theories of the world—everyday ideas about psychology, biology, and physics. These theories are like scientific theories but they are largely unconscious rather than conscious, and they are coded in children's brains, instead of being written down on paper or presented at scientific conferences
that children understand the nature of rules themselves. Children...understand when rules specify obligations, then you have to act the way the rule says. When they specify prohibitions, you can't ever act that way. When they give you permission, you can decide on independent grounds whether you will act that way