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 for any psychic occurrence is never a thing in itself, but is always the resultant of the entire psychological past.



The association experiment, too, is not merely a method for the reproduction of separated word couplets, but it is a kind of pastime, a conversation between experimenter and test-person. In a certain sense it is still more than that. Words really represent condensed actions, situations, and things. When I