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Fechner

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Fechner (German) [ˈfɛçnər]
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(Biographies / Fechner, Gustav Theodor (1801-1887) M, German, SCIENCE: physicist, PHILOSOPHY: philosopher, SCIENCE: psychologist) Gustav Theodor (ˈgʊstaf ˈteːodoːr). 1801-87, German physicist, philosopher, and psychologist, noted particularly for his work on psychophysics, Elemente der Psychophysik (1860)
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Noun1.Fechner - German physicist who founded psychophysics; derived Fechner's law on the basis of early work by E. H. Weber (1801-1887)


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Fechner and Kilgore (1994) asserted Hofstede's (1980) finding that uncertainty avoidance is the only dimension that significantly correlated with his other three cultural dimensions.
Holly Fechner, chief labor counsel on the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, says such an agenda would be possible with "a campaign that brings the big picture into focus.
It is the heavily nuanced conflict between these two tensions in the text that Crary invites us to examine in Darwin as well as in Freud, in William James as in Wundt, in Ribot as in Fechner or Binet, in Bergson as well as in Peirce and Nietzsche, and through all those for whom hypnosis, for example, constituted one of the major phenomena of the new undecidability attached to the phenomenon of the human subject.
 
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