| 单词 | psychologist's fallacy |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspsychologist's fallacy psychologist's fallacy n. (also psychologists' fallacy) the confusion of the thought of the observer with that which is being observed; the assumption that motives, etc., present in one's own mind are also present in that of the subject under investigation. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > psychology > [noun] > student or teacher of psychology > fallacy of psychologist's fallacy1890 1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. I. vii. 196 The great snare of the psychologist is the confusion of his own standpoint with that of the mental fact about which he is making his report. I shall hereafter call this the ‘psychologist's fallacy’ par excellence. 1902 J. M. Baldwin Dict. Philos. & Psychol. II. 382/2 Psychologist's fallacy, the fallacy, to which the psychologist is peculiarly liable, of reading into the mind he is examining what is true of his own; especially of reading into lower minds what is true of higher. 1955 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 16 351 To say that pictures on the retina are the proper objects of sight is to commit ‘the psychologists' fallacy’, a fallacy to which the writers of optics were prone, and which Berkeley was particularly anxious to avoid. 1984 Acad. of Managem. Rev. 9 228/1 The life cycle model clearly reveals the psychologist's fallacy: continuing a project in the face of a financial setback is not always irrational. < as lemmas |
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