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““This law of equilibrium, Piaget repeats, is not something external, imposed upon intellectual change from without; it is not a transcendent, Platonic principle. On the contrary, much like Kant's notion of the moral law, which is not internal to the individual, the law of equilibration is an immanent principle in experience (Piaget, 1977/1995, pp. 94, 154, 190, 216, 227, 243). Such a concept of the immanent versus the””

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