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	Gustav Fechner Summary
		Gustav Theodor Fechner was born on April 19, 1801, at Gross-Särchen, Lower Lusatia.
		Fechner's most significant contribution was made in his Elemente der Psychophysik (1860), a text of the "exact science of the functional relations, or relations of dependency, between body and mind," and in his Revision der Hauptpunkte der Psychophysik (1882).
		Fechner also studied the still-mysterious perceptual illusion of Fechner color, whereby colors are seen in a moving pattern of fl and white..
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	Gustav Theodor Fechner - LoveToKnow 1911
		GUSTAV THEODOR FECHNER (1801-1887), German experimental psychologist, was born on the 19th of April 1801 at Gross-Sarchen, near Muskau, in Lower Lusatia, where his father was pastor.
		In his last work Fechner, aged but full of hope, contrasts this joyous "daylight view" of the world with the dead, dreary "night view" of materialism.
		Fechner's position in reference to predecessors and contemporaries is not very sharply defined.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Gustav_Theodor_Fechner (616 words)

	Mind, Brain, and the Experimental Psychology of Consciousness
		Fechner's aim in the Elemente was to establish an exact science of the functional relationship between physical and mental phenomena.
		Fechner may have set out to counter materialist metaphysics; but he was a well-trained, systematic experimentalist and a competent mathematician and the impact of his work on scientists such as Helmholtz, Ernst Mach, A.W. Volkmann, Delboeuf, and others was scientific rather than metaphysical.
		Experimental psychology, born with Fechner, nurtured by Helmholtz and Donders, was to be raised by Wundt.
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	Pioneers of Psychology [2001 Tour] - School of Education & Psychology
		Gustav Theodor Fechner was born in a small village in the Wendish country of southeastern Germany in 1801.
		Fechner reasoned that it can be assumed that just noticeable differences, j.n.d.'s, as they came to be called, are equal through the range of the sense quality, that these j.n.d.' s are thus equal increments and measure sensation.
		Fechner established what he considered to be the absolute stimulus threshold or limen, the value of which the subject's sensing of the stimulus is just ready to appear, as that value of stimulus which marks the limit of a sensory continuum.
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	Gustav Fechner - Psychology Wiki - a Wikia wiki
		Fechner's law implies that sensation is a logarithmic function of physical intensity, which is impossible due to the logarithm's singularity at zero; therefore, S.
		Fechner, along with Wilhelm Wundt and Hermann Helmholtz is recognized as one of the founders of modern, experimental psychology.
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	Gustav Fechner
		Gustav Theodor Fechner (April 19, 1801 - November 28, 1887), German experimental psychologist, was born at Gross-Särchen, near Muskau, in Lower Lusatia, where his father was pastor.
		Fechner's epoch-making work was his Elemente der Psycho physik (1860).
		Fechner (Stuttgart, 1896 and 1902); EB Titchener, Experimental Psychology (New York, 1905); GF Stout, Manual of Psychology (1898), bk.
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	Gustav Fechner
		Since he didn’t set out to make experimental psychology into a science and didn’t turn it into a new school, he is often not considered its founder.
		Gustav Fechner it seems has been forgotten in some texts or discussions.
		Fechner and psychology: Proceedings of the International Gustav Theodore Fechner Symposium.
	web.sau.edu /WaterStreetMaryA/gustav_fechner.htm (1150 words)

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		An interesting note from Fechner's introduction is that his hopes in issuing a second edition of his book are twofold: to renew interest int he book, and to renew an interest in his friends songs, as he feels that the creation of both went hand in hand.
		Gustav Theodor Fechner (1801-1870) was what we might consider a Renaissance man. He influenced the worlds of physics, psychology, philosophy, metaphysics, and music with his work.
		Fechner sees the life of man as developing in three stages: the first stage being a continuous sleep (time spent int he womb); the second stage being an alternation between sleeping and waking (physical life - life between birth and death); the third stage being an eternal awakening.
	www.angelfire.com /nm/spiritualwarrier/index.786.html (756 words)

	Classics in the History of Psychology -- Introduction to Fechner (1860) by R. H. Wozniak
		In arriving at a unit of measurement, Fechner took the notion of a "just noticeable difference" from Weber's earlier experiments on lifted weights.[6] A just noticeable difference is the minimum reportable difference in intensity of sensation brought about by a minimal change in physical stimulus intensity.
		Fechner's own contribution was to recognize that the just noticeable difference could be made the basic unit of measurement of the intensity of sensation.
		In developing psychophysics, Fechner had succeeded, at least to his own satisfaction, in specifying the functional relationship between the intensity of sensation, the psychophysical unity viewed from the mental side, and the intensity of the stimulus, the psychophysical unity viewed from the material side.
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	Fechner
		Fechner, was the son of a Lutheran minister.
		Fechner was a PANPSYCHIST and believed that all the universe is conscious.
		Fechner was the founder of the field of psychophysics.His Elements of Psychophysics were published in 1860.
	www.bethel.edu /~johluc/history-resource/fechner.html (473 words)

	European Traces of the History of Psychology: Paul Broca
		Fechner was born in 1801 in Särchen, Germany, and died in 1887 in Leipzig.
		Fechner's Elemente der psychophysik (1860) is considered by many to mark the beginning of scientific psychology.
		Fechner's Residence, from 1850 to 1887, at Scherlstrasse 2.
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	Gustav Fechner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gustav Theodor Fechner (April 19, 1801 – November 28, 1887), was a German experimental psychologist.
		Unfortunately, from the tenable theory that the intensity of a sensation increases by definite additions of stimulus, Fechner was led on to postulate a unit of sensation, so that any sensations might be regarded as composed of n units.
		Fechner also studied the still-mysterious perceptual illusion of Fechner color, whereby colours are seen in a moving pattern of fl and white...
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gustav_Fechner (793 words)

	BRITISH MENSA - PDG
		Fechner maintained that the Darwinian view contradicted the Principle of Tendency Toward Stability; and that we should therefore assume the genesis of inorganic conditions from the primordial organic conditions of the Earth.
		Fechner was a deeply religious scientist; a metaphysical poet of the Universe, committed to his 'mission' to restore God in a materialistic Universe of blind mechanical forces.
		Fechner was raised in the traditions of Romanticism and German idealism; in a great age of speculation, of wonder, of grand synthetic schemes to solve the mystery of the Universe.
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	Ken Wilber Online: Preface to Integral Psychology
		Fechner did indeed make extraordinary contributions to empirical and measurable psychology; his Elements of Psychophysics is justly regarded as the first great text of psychometrics, and it fully deserves all the accolades psychologists from Wundt onward gave it.
		Fechner maintained, as one scholar summarized it, "that the whole universe is spiritual in character, the phenomenal world of physics being merely the external manifestation of this spiritual reality....
		Fechner himself explained that, "As our bodies belong to the greater and higher individual body of the earth, so our spirits belong to the greater and higher individual spirit of the earth, which comprises all the spirits of earthly creatures, very much as the earth-body comprises their bodies.
	wilber.shambhala.com /html/books/inpsyc_preface.cfm (1775 words)

	Student Excellence in Writing
		The effect of given side length was used to replicate Gustav Fechner’s Golden Section study, which found that shapes with a ratio of 1:1.618 are more pleasing to the eye than shapes with other proportions.
		Fechner was the first to empirically test the golden section hypothesis through an experiment using the method of choice.
		Fechner had only used solid (closed) shapes in his experiment and only open shapes could be made in the method of production studies until now since paper and pencil could make only an outline of a shape.
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	Gustav Theodor Fechner
		FECHNER, GUSTAV THEODOR (1801-1887), German experimental psychologist, was born on the 19th of April 1801 at Gross-Sgrchen, near Muskau, in Lower Lusatia, where his father was pastor.
		The most famous outcome of his inquiries is the law known as Webers or Fechners law which may be expressed as follows: In order that the intensity of a sensation may increase in arithmetical progression, the stimulus must increase in geometrical progression.
		Still, the idea of the exact measurement of sensation has been a fruitful one, and mainly through his influence on Wundt, Fechner was the father of that new psychology of laboratories which investigates human faculties with the aid of exact scientific apparatus.
	www.york.ac.uk /depts/maths/histstat/fechner_biog.htm (749 words)

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		Gustav Theodor Fechner was a major contributor to the first methods of the quantitative measurement of mental processes.
		Fechner stresses that these examples can be found everywhere and that everything changes when the standpoint changes.
		Fechner’s findings fill two volumes of his book Elements der Psychophysics, that explain the field of psychophysics in much greater detail and go through the steps of how he moves from a complex question to finding a method to solve it and coming up with a strong testable solution.
	www.kean.edu /~odonneja/fechner.htm (1040 words)

	The First Psychologists (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Fechner believed his differential threshold, or continuous scale that led to conscious reception of a stimulus was the bridge between physical and psychical, that he revealed mathematically as well:
		While Fechner and others came close, moving psychology into the realm of experimentation, Systematic Introspection took the next step, along with the formations of specific schools of psychology, or groups with the same common goals, view of problems, and methodologies (or proposed solutions).
		Weber was interested in Kinesthesis (muscle sense -position) and touch, and his study of the skin's sensation of pressure and temperature marked the beginning of experimental psychology.
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	Gustav Fechner at AllExperts
		Gustav Theodor Fechner (April 19, 1801 – November 28, 1887), was a German experimental psychologist.
		Unfortunately, from the tenable theory that the intensity of a sensation increases by definite additions of stimulus, Fechner was led on to postulate a unit of sensation, so that any sensations might be regarded as composed of n units.
		Fechner also studied the still-mysterious perceptual illusion of Fechner color, whereby colors are seen in a moving pattern of fl and white..
	en.allexperts.com /e/g/gu/gustav_fechner.htm (792 words)

	fechlife
		Fechner's psychological interests began to manifest themselves toward the end of the 1830s in papers on the perception of complementary and subjective colors.
		In a famous metaphor, later adopted by Lewes, Fechner linkened the universe, which is at one and the same time both active consciousness and inert matter, to a curve that can be regarded from one point of view as convex and from another as concave yet still retains its essential integrity.
		In the line with this approach to mind/body, Fechner laid out a future program for psychophysics - to demonstrate the unity of mind and body empirically by relating increase in bodily energy to corresponding increase in mental intensity.
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	CHAPTER 13 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The major source for the details of Fechner's life was G. Hall, Founders of Modern Psychology (New York: Appleton, 1912), but the organization of the material about his life and his careers owes much to the presentation of E. Boring, A History of Experimental Psychology, 2nd ed.
		Fechner, Vorschule der Aesthetik (Leipzig: Breitkopf and Hartel, 1876).
		Lest the emphasis on Weber and Fechner give a false impression about the initiation of research in the field, one aspect, that of threshold measurement, had not waited for their work.
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	Bibliographie Gustav Theodor Fechner
		Gustav Theodor Fechner und sein Hauslexikon, 1834 bis 1838 : ein Beitrag zur Fechner-Biographie und zur Geschichte der enzyklopädischen Literatur in Deutschland / Hans-Jürgen Arendt.
		Gustav Theodor Fechner (1801 - 1887) gehört zu jenen "Grenzgängern der Wissenschaft"[1] - in seinem Fall zwischen Naturwissenschaften und Philosophie bzw.
		Fechner war für seine wissenschaftliche und literarische Doppelbegabung bekannt, und davon ließ sich Arendt offensichtlich beflügeln: Er schuf mit dem vorliegenden Werk kein schwer verdauliches Wissenskonzentrat, sondern ein flüssig geschriebenes und spannend zu lesendes Buch, für das er in akribischer Kleinarbeit recherchierte.
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	Sensation: Thresholds and Psychophysics
		Fechner called the field of study than examines the relationship between the physical stimulus and its psychological representation Psychophysics.
		After independently rediscovering Weber's Law, Fechner went Weber one better by showing that, with Weber's Law and the addition of a simple and reasonable assumption, one could determine the relationship between physical and psychological intensity he was seeking.
		Fechner assumed that an increase of 2 grams from 100 seems like the same increase in weight as an increase of 4 grams from 200 grams.
	users.ipfw.edu /abbott/120/thresholds.html (910 words)

	Amazon.com: The Little Book Of Life After Death: Books: Gustav Theodor Fechner,William James,Mary C. Wadsworth (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Fechner also maintained that the Earth has a soul (and that we grow upon the Earth as the leaves grow upon a tree) and that God is the totalized consciousness of the whole universe, and thus that God evolves in time.
		Fechner maintains that the spirits of the third stage (that of life after death) will each have its own share of the universal body, and he goes on to discuss a theory of consciousness and explains the "law of the threshold of consciousness".
		Fechner maintains that such manifestations are incomplete and that the dead and the living should not try to communicate because it degrades the dead.
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	Psych 601 Unit 5 Module 2
		Fechner, Helmholtz, Wundt, and Galton all receive from Boring the designation of "father of experimental psychology." Fechner is so honored because he founded psychophysics.
		Fechner built upon the work of Weber who had first discovered that the perceived increase in sensation differs from the corresponding increase in the stimulus.
		In Fechner's formula the "k" is that constant (or ratio) determined by the Weber law, which expresses the fractional increase necessary for a just noticeable difference.
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	Fechner, Gustav Theodor - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		FECHNER, GUSTAV THEODOR [Fechner, Gustav Theodor], 1801-87, German philosopher and physicist, founder of psychophysics, educated at Dresden and Leipzig.
		He became professor of physics at Leipzig in 1834 but was forced by ill health to leave in 1839.
		He formulated the rule known as Fechner's, or Weber's, law, that, within limits, the intensity of a sensation increases as the logarithm of the stimulus.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-fechner.html (263 words)

	MODERN PHILOSOPHY: Unclassified Philosophers - 3 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		When Gustav Theodor Fechner (picture) studied medicine, he regarded the world from a mechanistic point of view and almost became an atheist.
		Fechner called his philosophy an "offshoot from the tree of Schelling, though growing far away from the mother tree." He ignored Kant completely.
		Fechner himself turned for a while from empiricism to speculations about the supernatural, but then returned again to empiricism.
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