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On the other hand, ethnic psychology must always come to the assistance of individual psychology, when the developmental forms of the complex mental processes are in question. ↗

— Wilhelm Wundt

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The results of ethnic psychology constitute, at the same time, our chief source of information regarding the general psychology of the complex mental processes. ↗

— Wilhelm Wundt

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I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our knowledge of mental processes, like feelings or conscious intellectual activities, is based on a knowledge which we cannot tell. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

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Imagery is not past but present. It rests with what we call our mental processes to place these images in a temporal order. ↗

— George H. Mead

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Words for mental processes are all derived from physical things. ↗

— Robert Smithson

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