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"The lived experiences which could not find adequate scientific expression in the substance doctrine of rational psychology were now validated in light of new and better methods."
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"However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into the eighteenth century."
"The lived experiences which could not find adequate scientific expression in the substance doctrine of rational psychology were now validated in light of new and better methods."
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"The individual always realizes only one of the possibilities in its development, which could always have taken a different turning whenever it has to make an important decision."
"Ancient metaphysics underwent many changes at the hands of medieval thinkers who brought it in line with the dominant religious and theological movements of their day."
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