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... called into play at once ? This is what Wil- liam James called “ impartial redintegration . " Do we not confront here a magnificent extrapolation of the problem that faced Buri- dan's ass , caught between the two bales of hay , equally ...
... called into play at once ? This is what Wil- liam James called “ impartial redintegration . " Do we not confront here a magnificent extrapolation of the problem that faced Buri- dan's ass , caught between the two bales of hay , equally ...
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... called progressive mastery consists of the capacity to keep alive this precious freshness of response , this capacity to deploy energy in the form of cathexis or canalization at such points as give new meaningful structure , new ...
... called progressive mastery consists of the capacity to keep alive this precious freshness of response , this capacity to deploy energy in the form of cathexis or canalization at such points as give new meaningful structure , new ...
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... called personal from those called ex- tra - personal . To suggest the range of possible ways in which we may conceptualize the relation of the person to the world may perhaps help to make clear what we do not at present understand about ...
... called personal from those called ex- tra - personal . To suggest the range of possible ways in which we may conceptualize the relation of the person to the world may perhaps help to make clear what we do not at present understand about ...
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Our Twentiethcentury Vantage Point | 3 |
The Invention of Culture | 47 |
How We Come to Want What We Want | 60 |
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