psychologism

Noun

Meaning

psychologism (countable and uncountable, plural psychologisms)

(philosophy) The tendency to describe things in psychological or subjective terms

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

Such criticisms did not immediately extirpate what is called " psychologism ". Source: Internet

From this criticism to psychologism, the distinction between psychological acts and their intentional objects, and the difference between the normative side of logic and the theoretical side, derives from a platonist conception of logic. Source: Internet

Furthermore, various sources indicate that Husserl changed his mind about psychologism as early as 1890, a year before he published the Philosophy of Arithmetic. Source: Internet

Husserl pointed out that the failure of anti-psychologists to defeat psychologism was a result of being unable to distinguish between the foundational, theoretical side of logic, and the applied, practical side. Source: Internet

Volume One contains seasoned reflections on "pure logic" in which he carefully refutes "psychologism". Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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