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Gestalt Psychology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

Maxwell Garnett
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The aim of psychology is first of all to describe how we think, or the flow of our consciousness, and then to sum up the facts in terms of principles, generalizations, or “laws” which “govern” our thinking. These laws must enable us to foretell what a man will think and how he will act when we know his environment and the state of his thought at any given moment, provided that no unforeseeable exercise of free will intervenes. Psychology has also to inquire whether interventions of “free will” ever do occur and, if they do, what is their nature and scope.

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Philosophy , Volume 18 , Issue 69 , April 1943, pp. 37 - 49
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1943

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