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| Psychology: Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. It encompasses human development, cognition, emotion, personality, social behavior, and mental disorders. See also Stages of Development, Social Behavior, Behavior, Personality, Personality traits, Emotion, Cognition._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Ludwig Wittgenstein on Psychology - Dictionary of Arguments
II 194 Art/Beauty/Wittgenstein: in what sense is the aesthetic investigation a matter of psychology? Pain and joy do not belong on the same scale! >Pain. The scale from "boiling hot" to "ice-cold" is also not a degree scale. These are differences of the kind. II 195 Psychology/Aesthetics/Wittgenstein: while we are interested in causal connections in psychology, in aesthetic examination they are precisely what we are not interested in! This is the main difference. Causality/Terminology/Wittgenstein/(s): Wittgenstein gives reasons here, not causes. II 196 Cause/Psychology/Wittgenstein: the reasons for satisfaction you give have nothing to do with psychology. It is a juxtaposition of things like in court. Psychological reasons would not be aesthetic reasons. It would not be reasons, it would be causes. One reason to claim that would be to make a hypothesis. As far as the means to make a door that is too bulky on the upper end more pleasant resembles a means against headaches, it is not a question of aesthetics. II 197 Psychology/Freud/Wittgenstein: E.g. correlation between the position of the fetus, and our sleep. Although this looks like a causal connection, it is not, because here we cannot perform a psychological experiment. Freud's explanation does the same as an aesthetic explanation: it brings two factors together. >Causal relation, >Causality. II 197 Psychology/Joke/WittgensteinVsFreud: confusion between reason and cause. Laughter has a reason - otherwise consent to the analysis would be no way to find out the cause. Cause/Physics: is not about consent - also causes of laughter can be detected, but not by consent, but by experiment. for aesthetic investigation consent is also needed. II 200 Psychology/Wittgenstein: my examination is not psychological, although a sentence is dead in a certain sense until it is understood. If there was no understanding of the signs, we would not call the signs language. II 30 Colours/Wittgenstein: the colour octahedron is used in psychology. In reality, however, it does not belong to psychology, but to grammar. We can speak of a greenish blue, but not of a greenish red, etc. >Colour. - - - VI 203 Psychology/Wittgenstein/Schulte: (1945, 49): attempts to classify psychological terms: experiences, emotions, beliefs. VI 205 They are terms of everyday life. >Everyday language, >Language games. - - - IV 41 Def Epistemology/Tractatus: 4.1121 is the philosophy of psychology. >Epistemology._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
W II L. Wittgenstein Wittgenstein’s Lectures 1930-32, from the notes of John King and Desmond Lee, Oxford 1980 German Edition: Vorlesungen 1930-35 Frankfurt 1989 W III L. Wittgenstein The Blue and Brown Books (BB), Oxford 1958 German Edition: Das Blaue Buch - Eine Philosophische Betrachtung Frankfurt 1984 W IV L. Wittgenstein Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (TLP), 1922, C.K. Ogden (trans.), London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. Originally published as “Logisch-Philosophische Abhandlung”, in Annalen der Naturphilosophische, XIV (3/4), 1921. German Edition: Tractatus logico-philosophicus Frankfurt/M 1960 |
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