"Thinking consists in envisaging, realizing structural features and……" — Max Wertheimer
"Thinking consists in envisaging, realizing structural features and structural requirements; proceeding in accordance with, and determined by, these requirements; thereby changing the situation in the direction of structural improvements."
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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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There are still psychologists who, in a basic misunderstanding, think that gestalt theory tends to underestimate the role of past…
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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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