“While we could agree with the psychological phenomenologists and assign an important place to generalization within the realm of the individual, we were quite sure that some data must be lifted from the realm of the individual and construed nomothetically that is, in a realm comprising many individuals.”

—  George Kelly (psychologist)

Source: The Psychology of Personal Constructs, 1955, p. 677-678

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American psychologist and therapist 1905–1967

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