Carolina QuotesOnly by the concrete whole which comprises the object and the situation are the vectors which determine the dynamics of the event defined.
Kurt Zadek Lewin Connected to the Carolinas
Source
p. 165.
- work
- The conflict between Aristotelian and Galileian modes of thought in contemporary psychology, 1931
- year
- 1931
- locator
- p. 165
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