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I have been so puzzled over the early labelling of personal construct theory as ‘cognitive’ that several years ago I set out to write another short book to make it clear that I wanted no part of cognitive theory.

— George Kelly

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Man anticipates events by construing their replications.

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The classic threefold division of psychology into cognition, affection, and conation has been completely abandoned.

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