Fechnerianadj.
/fɛxˈnɪərɪən/ Relating to G. T. Fechner (see Fechner n.).
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1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. I. xiii. 549 The Fechnerian Maasformel and the conception of it as an ultimate ‘psychophysic law’ will remain an ‘idol of the den’, if ever there was one.
1909 Westm. Gaz. 15 May 4/2 These Fechnerian ideas.
1942 Psychol. Rev. 49 140 The Fechnerian logarithmic relationship is not appreciably distorted, in cases of intensity transmission, by being reflexly transformed into motor response of an involuntary character.
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