Human Potentialities1958 |
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... experience is in part determined by that which is already there . This is the primary basis for the universal phenomenon of judging in terms of what we already know - the process to which political scientists and psychologists apply the ...
... experience is in part determined by that which is already there . This is the primary basis for the universal phenomenon of judging in terms of what we already know - the process to which political scientists and psychologists apply the ...
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... experience . New stimulation , new love of such experience , " incubates " them , makes them grow warm or even brings them to a " flash point " of readiness so that a new spark will precipitate a chain reaction of glowing creativity ...
... experience . New stimulation , new love of such experience , " incubates " them , makes them grow warm or even brings them to a " flash point " of readiness so that a new spark will precipitate a chain reaction of glowing creativity ...
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... experience relates to the discovery of new elements of experience , never known to human beings be- fore . Industrial chemistry , for example , gives us a wealth of new color experiences yielded by no sunset , no geological formation ...
... experience relates to the discovery of new elements of experience , never known to human beings be- fore . Industrial chemistry , for example , gives us a wealth of new color experiences yielded by no sunset , no geological formation ...
Contents
Our Twentiethcentury Vantage Point | 3 |
The Invention of Culture | 47 |
How We Come to Want What We Want | 60 |
Copyright | |
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