Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions.

This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge.

As you know, Bergson pointed out that there is no such thing as disorder but rather two sorts of order, geometric and living.

The most developed science remains a continual becoming

Children have real understanding only of that which they invent themselves, and each time that we try to teach them too quickly, we keep them from reinventing it themselves.

Teaching means creating situations where structures can be discovered.

In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact.