psychologisticadj.

1899 H. Munsterberg Psychol. & Life 90 It is the old psychologistic absurdity that any theoretical idea about psychological objects can touch the subjectifying interests of the real life.

1907 Philos. Rev. 16 245 A generation of thinkers which had approached the logical conception of reality with psychologistic antipathies and logical sympathies, was disposed to cast in its lot with these two philosophers.

1935 Amer. Speech 10 247/1 That the distinction between langue and parole does not imply any psychologistic assumptions, is shown..by the fact that it has served as a starting point to the phoneme conception of Professor Twaddell, who resolutely protests against all psychologistic definitions of the phoneme.

1976 Brit. Jrnl. Sociol. 27 304 A sociological approach is apt to imply that such groups collude in their subordinate position and then to provide psychologistic interpretations of their behaviour.

1993 Nature 10 June 505/3 What he sees as a ‘Freudian’ or psychologistic account of the origins of homosexuality which root [sic] it in early childhood experience.

2005 Bull. Symbolic Logic 11 298 Psychologistic approaches to the semantics of vague predicates have focussed on the psychology of the application of vague words.