Experience Precedes Understanding.

To Express The Same Idea In Still Another Way, I Think That Human Knowledge Is Essentially Active.

At One Time, Many Philosophers Held That Faultless "laws Of Thought" Were Somehow Inherent, A Priori, In The Very Nature Of Mind. This Belief Was Twice Shaken In The Past Century; First When Russell And His Successors Showed How The Logic Men Employ Can Be Defective, And Later When Freud And Piaget Started To Reveal The Tortuous Ways In Which Our Minds Actually Develop.

Equilibrium Is The Profoundest Tendency Of All Human Activity.

Scientific Thought, Then, Is Not Momentary; It Is Not A Static Instance; It Is A Process.

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.