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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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Weber's Law of psychophysics has been succinctly phrased by Gustav Fechner as "the sensation increases proportional as the logarithm of the stimulus intensity.
 
 
 
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