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Wittgenstein’s “Forms of Life”: A Cultural Template for Psychology

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The whole of psychology is in search of an orientation. Developmental psychology can hardly be the least of its sub-disciplines in this respect.

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Margolis, J. (1987). Wittgenstein’s “Forms of Life”: A Cultural Template for Psychology. In: Chapman, M., Dixon, R.A. (eds) Meaning and the Growth of Understanding. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-83023-5_8

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