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"Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life."
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"What is the meaning of the togetherness of the perceiving mind, in that peculiar modification of perceiving which makes it perceive not a star but a tree, and the tree itself, is a problem for philosophy."
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