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Definition of Fechner
1. Noun. German physicist who founded psychophysics; derived Fechner's law on the basis of early work by E. H. Weber (1801-1887).
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Literary usage of Fechner
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Philosophy by Frank Thilly (1914)
"Gustav Theodor Fechner (1801-1887), professor of physics at Leipzig, and one of
the founders of psycho-physics, is a representative of the same movement. ..."
2. A History of Modern Philosophy: A Sketch of the History of Philosophy from by Harald Høffding (1908)
"(U) Gustav Theodor Fechner Fechner and Lotze may be called the Dioscuri of German
philosophy in the latter half of our century. They are alike in idealistic ..."
3. The New Psychology by Edward Wheeler Scripture (1897)
"THE existence of experimental psychology as an independent science, begins with
Fechner.1 Gustav Theodor Fechner was born ..."
4. German Psychology of To-day: The Empirical School by Théodule Ribot, James Mark Baldwin (1886)
"In aesthetics especially, or at least in the study of its physical and physiological
conditions, Fechner has shown a rigor of method very rare among German ..."
5. A History of Modern Philosophy: (From the Renaissance to the Present) by Benjamin Chapman Burt (1892)
"Fechner, born in Lower Lusatia, studied medicine and the natural sciences at Leipsic
... Works of Fechner are : " Ueber das hochste Gut" (1846); "Nanna, ..."
6. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... on the entire literature of the subject since Fechner (1840) was that "ite
proper psychological outcome is just nothing at all1' ("Principles", I, 534). ..."
7. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"... or G. Th. Fechner. (2) How is the imperishable element of the human soul
thought of? Opposed to natural immortality, which corresponds to préexistence ..."
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