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3 unusual facts about Gestalt qualities


Gestalt qualities

And yet, beginning with Ehrenfels himself, psychologists have not been able to explain their nature.

Gestalt qualities (Gestaltqualitäten in German) were introduced by the Austrian philosopher Christian von Ehrenfels (1859–1932).

Jonathan Crary describes Ehrenfels' assertions within the modern problem of form as the attempt to formulate "laws" that would give to perception a semblance of the same unconditional guarantees that vision had had within the classical regime of visuality.



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