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Royce develops two major ideas in his paper, both of which are consistent, in general, with his earlier work (e.g., Royce, 1978). I shall summarize these two ideas, referring to Royce’s general orientation to theoretical psychology, and then comment on part of just one of those ideas.
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Hyland, M.E. (1985). Theoretical Pluralism and Complementarity. In: Madsen, K.B., Mos, L.P. (eds) Annals of Theoretical Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2487-4_21
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