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Intelligence, motivation, personality, learning, stimulation, behaviour and attitude are just some of the categories that map the terrain of `psychological reality'. These are the concepts which, among others, underpin theoretical and empirical work in modern psychology - and yet these concepts have only recently taken on their contemporary meanings. This fascinating work is a persuasive explanation of how modern psychology found its language. Kurt Danziger develops an account that goes beyond the taken-for-granted quality of psychological discourse to offer a profound and broad-ranging analysis of the recent evolution of the concepts and categories on which it depends. Danziger explores this process and shows how its conse
Metalanguage: The Technological Framework
Metalanguage: The Technological Framework
In the sphere of scientific activity there are profound affinities between language and method. Both are ways of constituting specific fields of investigative and controlling action (Tseëlon, 1991). If it is to qualify as scientific, method must be explicitly described, and this cannot be done without reference to the kinds of things the method is applied to. A scientific method is never just a wordless or signless practice; it is a practice under some description. So the practitioners' understanding of what they are doing is intimately tied up with their understanding of the world in which or to which they are doing it. On the other hand, a language is never just a system of representation; as soon ...
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