"There are still psychologists who, in a basic……" — Max Wertheimer
"There are still psychologists who, in a basic misunderstanding, think that gestalt theory tends to underestimate the role of past experience. Gestalt theory tries to differentiate between and-summative aggregates, on the one hand, and gestalten, structures, on the other, both in sub-wholes and in the total field, and to develop appropriate scientific tools for investigating the latter."
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Max Wertheimer
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10 Quotes by Max Wertheimer
Max Wertheimer has 10 quotes on this site.
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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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It opposes the dogmatic application to all cases of what is adequate only for piecemeal aggregates. The question is whether…
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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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More Aggregates Quotes
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Just as a chariot is verbalized, in dependence on collections of parts, so conventionally a sentient being, is set up…
— Gautama Buddha
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Wealth aggregates and becomes political power. Simple as that. ‘Corporation’ is just the most recent name for it.
— Daniel Suarez
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It opposes the dogmatic application to all cases of what is adequate only for piecemeal aggregates. The question is whether…
— Max Wertheimer
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The slicing technique from Flatland still remains one of the most powerful tools for dealing with aggregates in higher dimensions.
— Thomas Banchoff
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The aggregates that we pick up in the human plane will be washed away, and we will become pure spirit,…
— Frederick Lenz
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When you go into samadhi, either salvikalpa or nirvikalpa, what happens is you erase, you loosen, the aggregates. You simplify…
— Frederick Lenz
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Real change occurs from the bottom up; it occurs person to person, and it almost always occurs in small groups…
— Paul Hawken
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I think the Huffington Post has been inventive and presents what it aggregates well.
— Jill Abramson
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At present, in Guizhou, Hunan and Shandong of China, the sand and stone production lines in many stone crushing sites…
— Oliva
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Whoever realizes that the six senses aren't real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be…
— Bodhidharma
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