To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active.
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During the earliest stages the child perceives things like a solipsist who is unaware of himself as subject and is familiar only with his own actions.Jean Piaget
The more the schemata are differentiated, the smaller the gap between the new and the familiar becomes, so that novelty, instead of constituting an annoyance avoided by the subject, becomes a problem and invites searching.
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Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations.
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From this time on, the universe is built up into an aggregate of permanent objects connected by causal relations that are independent of the subject and are placed in objective space and time.
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During the earliest stages of thought, accommodation remains on the surface of physical as well as social experience.
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I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health.
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