Lloyd, A. H. (1898). Review of Zur psychologie der logischen grundthatsachen. [Review of the book Zur psychologie der logischen grundthatsachen. H. Gomperz]. Psychological Review, 5(1), 105-107.
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Reviews the book Zur Psychologie der logischen Grundthatsachen by Heinrich Gomperz (1897). Dr. Gomperz to the contrary, the psychology of the fundamental facts of logic can not in these days rest on only a formal synthesis of Nominalism, Realism, and Conceptualism. A radical change of standpoint is necessary. "Die Abhängigkeit des discursiven oder begrifflichen Denkens von der Sprache" is indeed a prevailing principle of thought, at which Dr. Gomperz may have arrived independently, and upon which others in earlier, as well as in more recent times, may be in accord with him (see the Vorbemerkung), but the value of the principle depends altogether upon the intent of the term Sprache. Many of Dr. Gomperz's statements have possibilities in them. However, the notion that reactions are 'spontaneous,' and so arbitrary, is hopelessly corrupting. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)