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How long does it take to read Actual Minds, Possible Worlds?

Jerome S. Bruner

Actual Minds, Possible Worlds by Jerome S. Bruner takes about 3 hours 41 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 3 hours 41 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1986. 201 pages, about 55,275 words.

8 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 6 hours 9 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 3 hours 41 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 2 hours 18 minutes

The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

Drawing on recent work in literary theory, linguistics, and symbolic anthropology, as well as cognitive and developmental psychology Professor Bruner examines the mental acts that enter into the imaginative creation of possible worlds, and he shows how the activity of imaginary world making undergirds human science, literature, and philosophy, as well as everyday thinking, and even our sense of self. - Publisher.

Subjects: Psycholinguistics, Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)., Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.), Creativity, Literatur, Psycholinguistik

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