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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.

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

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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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