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I feel sure that no one has done this particular kind of job [i.e. a physicalistic system of psychology, mind, and consciousness] nearly so well.
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Edwin Boring, "Elementist Going Up", The Scientific Monthly (March 1953), p. 183

 

Friedrich Hayek

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