> It’s just something old white guys said in the 1960s without support, like Jungian archetypes and things like that. It is that, but it's not just that; the c

> It’s just something old white guys said in the 1960s without support, like Jungian archetypes and things like that. It is that, but it's not just that; the concept is attested farther back. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ignatius_of_Loyola#Disputed https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ignatius_of_Loyola#Disputed > Give me the child for the first seven years and I will give you the man. If Voltaire invented it from whole cloth, that's still the 18th century. Though on your topic, Piaget is an amazing example of someone just inventing a completely ridiculous theory, doing experiments that fail to support it, and getting it enshrined as wisdom anyway.