Jean Piaget Quotes about Reality

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The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality.

The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality.

Jean Piaget

Reality, Building Up, Understanding

"Homage to Jean Piaget (1896 - 1980)" by Ernst von Glasersfeld, "Irish Journal of Psychology", vol. 18, issue 3, pp. 293 - 306, 1997.

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

Children, Reality, Action

Jean Piaget (2013). “The Construction Of Reality In The Child”, p.352, Routledge

Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality.

Jean Piaget

Mean, Reality, Knowing

Richard Isadore Evans, Jean Piaget (1973). “Dialogue with Jean Piaget”, Praeger Publishers

Accommodation of mental structures to reality implies the existence of assimilatory schemata apart from which any structure would be impossible.

Jean Piaget

Reality, Would Be, Impossible

Jean Piaget (2013). “The Construction Of Reality In The Child”, p.352, Routledge

I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health.

Jean Piaget

Mother, Attitude, Reality

Richard Isadore Evans, Jean Piaget (1973). “Dialogue with Jean Piaget”, Praeger Publishers

Jean Piaget Quotes about Reality

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