By pointing out that Gestalt qualties are subject to abstraction Ehrenfels provided, at the same time and apparently without realizing it, the " counterwieght to the individualistic tendenecies " of which he speaks in the last paragraph of his paper. More recently, Gestalt theory has indeed been claimed as an ally for the idiographic view, according to which the unqiunesss of the individual whole excludes any kind of lawful generalization. Ehrenfels touches the most sensitive spot of Gestalt theory when he discusses a question likely to be rasied in response to his approach. There is to be assumed an infinitely large number of mutual influences among the parts or combinations of parts. His most striking counterargument is if we look at the facts, we find that each part is clearly given to us as to its own nature and function in the whole.Henle
By pointing out that Gestalt qualities are subject to abstraction Ehrenfels provided, at the same time and apparently without realizing it, the " counterweight to the individualistic tendencies " of which he speaks in the last paragraph of his paper. More recently, Gestalt theory has indeed been claimed as an ally for the idiographic view, according to which the uniqueness of the individual whole excludes any kind of lawful generalization. Ehrenfels touches the most sensitive spot of Gestalt theory when he discusses a question likely to be raised in response to his approach. There is to be assumed an infinitely large number of mutual influences among the parts or combinations of parts. His most striking counterargument is if we look at the facts, we find that each part is clearly given to us as to its own nature and function in the whole.Henle
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