Definition of psychologism in English:
psychologism
noun sʌɪˈkɒlədʒɪz(ə)msīˈkäləˌjizəm
mass nounPhilosophy A tendency to interpret events or arguments in subjective terms, or to exaggerate the relevance of psychological factors.
philosophical semantics was crippled by psychologism
Example sentencesExamples
- Richards's psychologism had ‘paved the way for the study of poems as independent structures’ or ‘consideration of the poem as a separate world.’
- This disappearance of objective knowledge in Western philosophy has continued in other idealist and subjective guises-positivism, materialism, psychologism and historicism.
- For the critics of psychologism, validity had nothing to do with genesis, truth content was independent of individual judgments, and justification did not rely on mere rhetorical persuasion.
- Secondly, Glock defends Strawson's dismissal of transcendental idealism and transcendental psychologism.
- Frege was also a harsh critic of psychologism in logic: the view that logical truths are truths about psychology.