“Here we are more likely to come across fields that are structured in an agonistic manner, fields which are characterized by deep divisions between alternative schools of thought rather than by the achievement of a general working consensus.”

—  Kurt Danziger

Source: "Does the history of psychology have a future?." 1994, p. 471

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