Accomodation / Assimilation / Equilibration - Piaget

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        A more immediate obstacle to raising and resolving the problem of topologies, however, was 
        Piaget's conception of developmental construction as the equilibration of cognitive 
        structures. Equilibration is not a constructive 
      
      
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         at all. It is a 
      
      
        <i>tendency</i>
      
      
         toward equilibrium; that is, toward certain properties of the operative structures that 
        get constructed (Bickhard, 1988; Campbell & Bickhard, 1992b). Piagetian constructions are 
        of potential actions and potential meta-actions -- coordinations of actions. He was 
        particularly concerned with the fascinating mathematical and logical properties that 
        emerge when a space of potential meta-actions is constructively exhausted, producing a 
        closed algebraic organization like a group. Piaget's (1985) model of equilibration never 
        specified the 
      
      
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         of such construction, only some of the functional properties of the resulting 
        constructions, like their reversibility or their tendency toward algebraic closure. 
        Without such a model of the processes of construction -- of macrogenesis and microgenesis 
        -- Piaget could not deliver a constructive topology. 
      
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