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... extrapolation but only by positing a new level , a level of emergence , a level of qualitatively different events . Let us first try the method of extrapolation as applied to the biological endowment of mankind . It will be recalled ( p ...
... extrapolation but only by positing a new level , a level of emergence , a level of qualitatively different events . Let us first try the method of extrapolation as applied to the biological endowment of mankind . It will be recalled ( p ...
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... extrapolation of steps to physical invention is impossible , the extrapolation of human modes of dealing with such inventions is feasible . Such extrapolations depend upon what little is known about the gen- eral potentials of the human ...
... extrapolation of steps to physical invention is impossible , the extrapolation of human modes of dealing with such inventions is feasible . Such extrapolations depend upon what little is known about the gen- eral potentials of the human ...
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... extrapolation , 252-54 , 259 Emerson , Ralph Waldo , 141 , 178 emotional roots , 164-68 environment , 244-46 ( see also cul- ture ) Epictetus , 279 Eskimo , 61 , 247 Euclid , 251 eugenics , 226 , 231-39 extrapolation , 252-54 , 258 f ...
... extrapolation , 252-54 , 259 Emerson , Ralph Waldo , 141 , 178 emotional roots , 164-68 environment , 244-46 ( see also cul- ture ) Epictetus , 279 Eskimo , 61 , 247 Euclid , 251 eugenics , 226 , 231-39 extrapolation , 252-54 , 258 f ...
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achieve activity adaptive radiation appear arts aspects association psychology autisms basic become biological canalization capacity cathexis central nervous system century changes child complex conception cosmic craving creative cultural curiosity depend discovered discovery drives emergence environment evolution example existence experience extrapolation fact factors freedom fulfillment genes genetic give given goals Gordon Allport homogamy human potentialities hypnosis ideas impulse individual intellectual interac interaction invention involved James Harvey Robinson Julian Huxley kind Kurt Lewin learning living man's mankind means ment mind modes mold move organization patterns period person physical possible principle problem psychoanalysis psychology reality relation response rhythms rigid satisfactions science fiction scientific sense sensitive sensory sheer simian social society specific standardized structure things thinking thought tion tive trends tural ture types understanding World War II