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configurationism|kənfɪgjʊəˈreɪʃənɪz(ə)m|
[f. as prec. + -ism.]
Any theory that lays stress on configurations, esp. Gestalt psychology. Hence configuˈrationist a. and n.
1925[see configuration 6]. 1925H. Helson in Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. July 343 After attacking certain older psychological concepts, the configurationists thus proceed to the erection of the structure which they wish themselves to substitute in place of the old. 1927Psychol. Abstr. I. 1 The work of the configurationists..is designed to illustrate and support an all-embracing theory. 1935Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. XXVI. 208 The configurationism is represented by Wertheimer, Köhler, Koffka and Krueger. 1936Times Lit. Suppl. 28 Mar. 260/2 The ‘configurationist’ view that a given custom in the eyes of those concerned is no casual association of unrelated elements. 1960Ibid. 6 May 282/2 A theory which Mr. Lerner, borrowing the phrase from Professor W. B. Gallie, calls ‘configurationism’..assimilates the mode of being of poems to the mode of being, say, of statues and paintings. |