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  • In his Observations on Man (1749), David Hartley supplied a theoretical underpinning for Locke's habit - forming education by developing an associationist psy - chology and made more explicit its perfectibilist con - sequences.

    PERFECTIBILITY OF MAN JOHN PASSMORE 1968

  • Locke's repudiation of innate ideas, his belief that the mind of every human being was shaped by experience after birth, was taken up in France by Condillac and Helvé - tius, and widely formulated as the associationist psy - chology, which became a premiss of educational and other reform.

    EQUALITY R. R. PALMER 1968

  • This view was strengthened by the theory of evolution and its applications to psychologi - cal phenomena; Herbert Spencer's Principles of Psy - chology (1855) contains long polemical passages show - ing the incompatibility of Kant's view with the observations of genetic psychology and psychopathol - ogy.

    TIME MILI�� ��APEK 1968

  • The usefulness of La Mettrie's deterministic — hence amoral — psy - chology is, however, far plainer to us now than it was to his own century.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas ARAM VARTANIAN 1968

  • Needless to say, modern thinking owes more than is sometimes acknowledged to ancient psy - chology.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas ANTHONY A. LONG 1968

  • Given provisions for two days, there seems to be no economic principle or general fact of psy - chology to determine the precise distribution between the two.

    ECONOMIC HISTORY FRANK H. KNIGHT 1968

  • This brought into being a space of psy - chology and physiology to which the Victorian era was very attentive (H. Weyl, secs. 14 and 18).

    SPACE SALOMON BOCHNER 1968

  • David Hartley's Observations on Man (1749) is important for working out in detail a scheme of psy - chology based on the association of ideas.

    MORAL SENSE D. D. RAPHAEL 1968

  • As Frank Manuel's study (1959) of rationalist myth shows, the inner problem that myth presents to the philosophes is strikingly expressed in how their psy - chology of religious origins turns obsessively on the emotion of fear or even terror.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas BURTON FELDMAN 1968

  • Although his associationist psy - chology, unlike the man-machine doctrine, preserved

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas ARAM VARTANIAN 1968

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