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Experiments in Thinking About Observed Ethnological Material

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

Gregory Bateson
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As I understand it, you have asked me for an honest, introspective—personal—account of how I think about anthropological material, and if I am to be honest and personal about my thinking, then I must be impersonal about the results of that thinking. Even if I can banish both pride and shame for half an hour, honesty will still be difficult.

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Research Article
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , January 1941 , pp. 53 - 68
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Copyright © The Philosophy of Science Association 1941

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Footnotes

1

This paper was read at the Seventh Conference on Methods in Philosophy and the Sciences, held at the New School for Social Research, April 28th, 1940.

References

2 For details of this and other similar incidents cf. Naven, pp. 98-107. Cambridge University Press, 1936.

3 Loc. cit., p. 261.