The close check with reality characteristic of experimental analysis would be most likely to expose the fictional entities which had played so devastating a role in what passed for psychological explanation and would permit us to escape from the inaccessible, hypothetical constructs emerging from statistical analyses. (p. 361)
Cumulative Record. Chapter 24: The Flight from the Laboratory. Quote 4
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