Limitations in Piaget’s Equilibration Account

Abstract

This time the ball flew to the ceiling and then paused at the point of bouncing. It seemed then to hang motionless in the air. For a long second it hung there— and throughout this time the ear awaited a rustling sound that never came, the ear stretched upwards for it, a sound that should have marked the friction of the ball with its shadow, the kiss of the ball’s light fur spinning against the ceiling. But silently it hung there, spinning slowly at the peak of its momentum, slowly as though turning round for the descent, hesitating against its own dark shadow, whispering against the ceiling a soundless kiss, suspended and yet still suspended for a moment of held beauty, breathless … (how long could it hang there? Would the rustle never be heard?) … until abruptly it dropped on its straight line gravitating downwards. (Sansom, p. 18)