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HomeThemesPsychology & Mental HealthQuantitative Analysis of Purposive Systems: Some Spadeworkat the Foundations of Scientific Psychology

Quantitative Analysis of Purposive Systems: Some Spadeworkat the Foundations of Scientific Psychology

August 6, 1978 WM Psychology & Mental Health

William T. Powers (1978)

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