It is argued that Gordon W. Allport's (1897-1967) eclectic and integrative proposal for the humanistic psychology which he helped to establish in the late 1960s, was an unique event in the history of Western psychology that clarifies the philosophical tension between the experimental-positivistic and experiential-phenomenological epistemological poles of psychological inquiry.
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