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The Matter With Things
Psychology is a discipline that consists, at least in its present form, mostly of desperate experiments which demonstrate very particular things about people. And so it's very difficult to get a grip on and there's billions of potential separate observations - but they're all part of the world picture. So i use paradox in this new book, but not in some blind way. In fact, i show that what we mean by a paradox is that the view of the left hemisphere of something and the view taken of the right hemisphere of the same thing can never actually completely marry up. They they have different qualities. If you push the comparison or the desire to make them logically come together, too far, you