On the Structure and Dynamics of Human Thought: The Legacy of William J. McGuire for Social and Political Psychology
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چکیده
We humans seem to have evolved with a need to know, a need to represent reality to ourselves insofar as our cognitive apparatus allows. This representational or knowing process appears to be a crucial aspect of our mode of coping with the environment. It is the tragedy of knowledge that this process, which we cannot do without, we cannot do well: it inevitably misrepresents the environment both by oversimplifying and by distorting it. . . . The only thing more outrageous than using our faulty intellectual processes, including scientific inquiry, to arrive at a representation of reality is not to use them. (William J. McGuire, 1985b, pp. 584–585)
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