But it is the bane of psychology to suppose that where results are similar, processes must be the same. Psychologists are too apt to reason as geometers would, if the latter were to say that the diameter of a circle is the same thing as its semi-circumference, because, forsooth, they terminate in the same two points.


Psychology, Briefer Course (ed. Harvard University Press, 1984) - ISBN: 9780674721029

William James Quotes

But it is the bane of psychology to suppose that where results are similar, processes must be the same. Psychologists are too apt to reason as...

But it is the bane of psychology to suppose that where results are similar, processes must be the same. Psychologists are too apt to reason as...

But it is the bane of psychology to suppose that where results are similar, processes must be the same. Psychologists are too apt to reason as...

But it is the bane of psychology to suppose that where results are similar, processes must be the same. Psychologists are too apt to reason as...