What is "adherences"

Usage examples of "adherences".

Piaget refers to such magical cognitions as a form of "participation" that is, the subject and the object, and various objects themselves, are "linked" by certain types of adherences, or felt connections, connections that nonetheless violate the rich fabric of relations actually constituting the object.

We have distinguished [several] varieties of adherences defined in this way.

As we will see, Piaget believes that the major and in many ways defining characteristic of all adherences is egocentrism, or an early and initial inability to transcend one's own perspective and understand that reality is not self-centered.

The emergence of the preop mind (fulcrum-3) is a lessening of that emotional egocentrism, but a blossoming of egocentric (and geocentric) magicless primitive than the previous stage, but still shot through with egocentric adherences: the world exists centered on humans.

The white housekeeper, despite her years and her pernickety adherences to the house.