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Journals > Psychological Science > William James on Reasoning 
Psychological Science

William James on Reasoning

Raymond S. Nickerson
Volume 1, Issue 3 | May 1990
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9280.1990.tb00190.x

Abstract

James looked for general principles in terms of which reasoning could be understood, and, in doing so, he sought to understand what it was about human beings that made them human.

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