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Fusion Words

In Maslow's framework, Fusion Words are words that combine description and normative evaluation, a "fusion of facts and values."[1] They are used by Maslow to point in the direction of normative statements of human health and development, to facilitate assertions, based on empirical evidence, about what it means to be healthy, self-actualizing, Fully Developed. It is a synthesis of operationalization and evaluation.

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Notes

Full Humanness is an example of a fusion word.

Quotes

Facts just don't lie there like pancakes, just doing nothing; they are to a certain extent signposts which tell you what to do, which make suggestions to you, which nudge you in one direction rather than another.[2]


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Footnotes

  1. Maslow, A. H. The Farther Reaches of Human Nature. Viking, 1971.
  2. Maslow, A. H. The Farther Reaches of Human Nature. Viking, 1971. p. 26.