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单词 psychologism
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psychologismn.

Brit. /sʌɪˈkɒlədʒɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /saɪˈkɑləˌdʒɪz(ə)m/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; probably modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: psychology n., -ism suffix.
Etymology: < psychology n. + -ism suffix, probably after French psychologisme (1840). Compare Italian psicologismo (in sense 1, attributed to V. Gioberti (1850) in M. Cortelazzo & P. Zolli Dizionario etimologico della lingua italiana (ed. 2, 1999) at that entry, although the word apparently does not appear in the place cited; 1863 in sense 2).
1. Philosophy. The view or doctrine that a theory of psychology or ideas forms the basis of an account of metaphysics, epistemology, or meaning; (sometimes) spec. the explanation or derivation of mathematical or logical laws in terms of psychological facts.In quot. 1874: idealism (see idealism n. 1) as opposed to sensualism.
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1850 Southern Literary Messenger Apr. 252 We can say that we believe that as Inductive science of the mind, this Psychologism..has wrought a pernicious influence, in the form in which it has been presented to the masses.
1874 V. Botta in G. S. Morris tr. F. Ueberweg Hist. Philos. II. App. ii. 479 The philosophic revolution which began with Descartes..manifested itself in the two forms of Psychologism (or Idealism), and Sensualism,—represented by Descartes and Malebranche on the one side, and by Locke and Condillac on the other.
1878 Mind 3 293 Kant rejected the ‘psychologism’ as well of Leibnitz as of Locke and Hume, which made Psychology either the foundation of Philosophy or a Metaphysic of the Sciences.
1907 Expositor July 27 The transcendental logical tendency which, excluding all empiricism and psychologism, aims to deduce the fundamental characteristics and categories of knowing from pure concepts.
1937 D. Katz in R. B. Cattell et al. Human Affairs iii. 36 According to this tendency logic is nothing but the psychology of thinking, mathematics nothing but the psychology of mathematical thinking... This tendency is usually called psychologism.
1950 R. Carnap Logical Found. Probability ii. 40 One of the important achievements in the development of modern logic has been the gradual elimination of psychologism.
2001 P. M. S. Hacker Wittgenstein (2004) viii. 227 But the laws of logic are not laws of psychology. Not psychologism, but realism, or more specifically Platonism, is the key to a correct understanding of logic.
2. gen. The tendency to explain matters in psychological terms, esp. when they are considered to be better or more properly explained in other ways.
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1903 Harper's Mag. June 149/1 Maeterlinck's weird dramas..are not more mystical than certain passages of Tolstoy, whose psychologism is rooted in realism as rank and palpable as Gorky's own.
1945 K. R. Popper Open Society II. xiv. 87 The structure..of the social environment, as opposed to the natural environment, is man-made; and therefore it must be explicable in terms of human nature, in accordance with the doctrine of psychologism.
1967 Canad. Med. Assoc. Jrnl. 12 Aug. 326/2 Physicians should be secure enough to be able to tolerate both etiologic ignorance and therapeutic impotence without falling into the traps of overinvestigation, overtreatment,..postures of extreme somaticism or extreme psychologism [etc.].
2005 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 7 Apr. 24/3 As in Karl's book, there is also a degree of questionable psychologism.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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