The study of personality by the intuitive method. An experiment in teaching from The Locomotive God.

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If psychology is to remain faithful to its natural subject matter (human nature) it must consider the individual manifestations of the single personality as well as general laws of human behavior. A concrete personality presents problems of causation and interpretation. Though not always sharply separable in practice, the first of these problems requires the current "explanatory" technique, the latter an "intuition" which focuses upon the unities of its subject. Any satisfactory theory as to "how we know people" must recognize that inference and context are always in the service of the inherent tendency of mind to elaborate its content into wholes, and therefore, in a sense, to perceive intuitively. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)

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