"It opposes the dogmatic application to all cases……" — Max Wertheimer
"It opposes the dogmatic application to all cases of what is adequate only for piecemeal aggregates. The question is whether an approach in piecemeal terms, through blind connections, is or is not adequate to interpret actual thought processes and the role of the past experience as well. Past experience has to be considered thoroughly, but it is ambiguous in itself; so long as it is taken in piecemeal, blind terms it is not the magic key to solve all problems."
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Max Wertheimer
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10 Quotes by Max Wertheimer
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Man is not only part of a field, but a part and member of his group. When people are together,…
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Science is rooted in the will to truth. With the will to truth it stands or falls. Lower the standard…
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Truth and falsity, indeed understanding, is not necessarily something purely intellectual, remote from feelings and attitudes. ... It is in…
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The basic thesis of gestalt theory might be formulated thus: there are contexts in which what is happening in the…
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"Pieces" almost always appear 'as parts' in whole processes. ... To sever a "'part" from the organized whole in which…
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There are wholes, the behavior of which is not determined by that of their individual elements, but where the part-processes…
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Given a situation, a system with a Leerstelle [a gap], whether a given completion (Lueckenfuellung) does justice to the structure,…
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There are still psychologists who, in a basic misunderstanding, think that gestalt theory tends to underestimate the role of past…
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Thinking consists in envisaging, realizing structural features and structural requirements; proceeding in accordance with, and determined by, these requirements; thereby…
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