Franklin, L. (1896). Review of Zur Psychophysik der Gesichtsempfindungen. [Review of the book Zur Psychophysik der Gesichtsempfindungen. G. E. Müller]. Psychological Review, 3(3), 338-342.
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Reviews the book "Zur Psychophysik der Gesichtsempfindungen" by G. E. Müller (no year given). This book discusses the five axioms that psychophysics assumes, which are peculiar to itself. The reviewer states that these axioms have been stated with more or less clearness by Lotze, Fechner, Mach and Hering. But when Hering says that a given sensation of gray may be caused by psychophysical processes very different in amount, provided the proportion of the white process to the black process remains the same, he misinterprets the principle of parallelism. This is in complete contradiction with the principle of continuity; it also is in disaccord with our fourth axiom, and with experience in the corresponding region of sound. A principle object of this paper is to modify Hering's theory of antagonistic colors in such a way that it can dispense with this assumption. The reviewer concludes that it has been known for some time that Prof. Müller was engaged upon a profound modification of Hering's theory, and his conclusion of this subject will be awaited with great interest. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)