As You Know, Bergson Pointed Out That

I Have Always Detested Any Departure From Reality, An Attitude Which I Relate To My Mother's Poor Mental Health.

To Understand Is To Invent.

Mixture Of Assimilation To Earlier Schemas And Adaptation To The Actual Conditions Of The Situation Is What Defines Motor Intelligence. But And This Is Where Rules Come Into Existence As Soon As A Balance Is Established Between Adaptation And Assimilation, The Course Of Conduct Adopted Becomes Crystallized And Ritualized. New Schemas Are Even Established Which The Child Looks For And Retains With Care, As Though They Were Obligatory Or Charged With Efficacy.

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.

It Is As His Own Mind Comes Into Contact With Others That Truth Will Begin To Acquire Value In The Child's Eyes And Will Consequently Become A Moral Demand That Can Be Made Upon Him. As Long As The Child Remains Egocentric, Truth As Such Will Fail To Interest Him And He Will See No Harm In Transposing Facts In Accordance With His Desires.