“Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations.”

—  Jean Piaget

Conclusion: "The Elaboration of the Universe" in The Construction of Reality in the Child (1955) http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/fr/piaget2.htm

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