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Gregg Henriques on the new unified theory of psychology

Thing in itself

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The Process of Justification Is What Turns People Into Persons

In 1997 I was stone one day. I go back to 1990s. Yes, and I actually use this for creative outside the box thinking. In 1996 I had come across this idea of justification. And what is justification justification? It's what turns us from primates into persons. Okay, you're both a primate and you're a person. A person is an entity that is self consciously aware can reflect on why they do what they do give accounts to other people for why they do it. That's what a person is. The tree of knowledge maps those relations.

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