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  • Life-time friendships begun in Meinong's Viennese academic period included those with the musicologist Guido Adler and the philosophers (also his pupils) Christian von Ehrenfels, Alois Höfler, and Anton von Oelzelt-Newin.

    Salvation Santa 2009

  • The seminal article of Gestalt Theory, Christian von Ehrenfels™ 1890

    Ernst Mach Pojman, Paul 2009

  • Grasping value properties can be interpreted as a certain kind of grasping of a Gestalt, as Ehrenfels and other Gestalt theorists might have said.

    Salvation Santa 2009

  • Meinong based values on feelings and not on desires, and he critically contrasted his kind of emotivism to Ehrenfels™ voluntarism, a more conative, desire-based theory of values.

    Salvation Santa 2009

  • Ehrenfels says that the ideas and topics most victimized by the prejudices of the psychological establishment are those phenomena at the heart of the human condition, such as dreams, spirituality, attitudes, emotions, symbolism, and the structure and dynamics of the human mind.

    Think Economics is Bad -- Take a Look at Psychology 2008

  • Psychology professors, writes Ehrenfels, “employ a combination of selection and reinforcement pressures to maintain a like-minded community of individuals intolerant to deviation and dissent and dependent on external sources of guidance, validation, and identity.”

    Think Economics is Bad -- Take a Look at Psychology 2008

  • Barazon came directly to the point: the novel Ali and Nino was written by the Baroness Elfriede Ehrenfels von Bodmershof, the second wife of Leela's father, Baron Omar-Rolf von Ehrenfels, and when Baroness Elfriede died, in the early 1980s, having outlived her husband, all rights to the work had passed down to Leela.

    Excerpt: The Orientalist by Tom Reiss 2005

  • Throughout his life he influenced a great number of students, many of who became important philosophers and psychologists in their own rights, such as Edmund Husserl, Alexius Meinong, Christian von Ehrenfels, Anton Marty, Carl Stumpf, Kasimir Twardowski, as well as Sigmund Freud.

    Franz Brentano Huemer, Wolfgang 2007

  • Under the entry for "Said, Kurban" in the author's section of the 193539 Deutscher Gesamtkatalog–the Third Reich's equivalent of Books in Print–it said, in no uncertain terms, "pseudonym for Ehrenfels, v. Bodmershof, Elfriede, Baroness."

    Excerpt: The Orientalist by Tom Reiss 2005

  • Prof. von Ehrenfels wittily remarks that if it were a moral precept that a man should never have intercourse _more them once in his life_ with any particular woman, this would correspond far better with the nature of the normal male and would cost him far less will-power than is needed by him in order to live up to the conventional demands of monogamy.

    Woman Her Sex and Love Life William J. Robinson

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