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  • Accordingly, post-Kantians such as Herbart, who wanted to maintain a strong realism, had to rethink this central feature of Kantian metaphysics.

    Hermann Lotze Sullivan, David 2005

  • To quote the title of a (truly ground-breaking) essay by Johann Friedrich Herbart, of 1804: The aesthetic depiction/presentation of the world (Die ästhetische Darstellung der Welt) is the main business of all education.

    F is for First Lessons « An A-Z of ELT 2010

  • In Herbart, Mach found a mechanical approach to psychology and physiology that coincided with Mach's early acceptance of atomism.

    Ernst Mach Pojman, Paul 2009

  • His role as a precursor of modern logic should not be overemphasized, however, since he acknowledges that the interpretation of universal sentences as hypothetical was suggested to him by his reading of Herbart.

    Francis Herbert Bradley Candlish, Stewart 2009

  • Mach makes little mention of Herbart in his later writings; for instance, only two brief references are made to Herbart in Analysis of Sensations, both in the context of reflections on his intellectual development.

    Ernst Mach Pojman, Paul 2009

  • Herbart and other German philosophers, partly independent of them.

    Theaetetus 2007

  • This equation, which later came to be known as Weber's Law, [19] was crucial to the development of psychology because it apparently demonstrated that where Herbart had failed in his aprioristic construction of mathematical regularities of mind, experimentation could succeed.

    Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt Kim, Alan 2006

  • If the grand theories of Comenius and Herbart about learning by incremental revelation, or those lifelong nanny rules of Owen, Maclure, Pestalozzi, and Beatrice Webb, or those calls for precision in human ranking of Thorndike and Hall, or those nuanced interventions of Yale, Stanford, and Columbia Teachers College were actually as essential as their proponents claimed, this libertarian miracle of motoring would be unfathomable.

    Archive 2005-08-01 2005

  • Herbart concludes that reality is composed of something plural, simple and indestructible: what he called ˜the Reals™.

    Hermann Lotze Sullivan, David 2005

  • In this way, among others, Lotze's metaphysics attempted to chart a middle course, one set somewhere between the absolute idealism of Hegel and his followers, on the one hand, and the critical realism of Herbart and his disciples, on the other.

    Hermann Lotze Sullivan, David 2005

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