From Heider to Psycho-Logic
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5338935 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jan Smedslund (University of Oslo, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 157-162 |
| Publication date | 2008-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1864-9335 • E-ISSN: 2151-2590 |
| Publisher | Hogrefe Publishing Group (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1027/1864-9335.39.3.157 |
| OpenAlex | W2062354374 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 22 |
Fritz Heider pointed out that common-sense psychology contains many analytic propositions. This discovery opened up the possibility that many scientific psychological hypotheses are also analytic and that the ensuing studies are pseudoempirical, that is, they only test the truth of auxiliary hypotheses. This appears to frequently be the case. The reason may be that hypotheses involving semantically related variables are plausible but nonempirical, whereas empirical hypotheses involving logically independent variables do not make sense. The discovery of numerous analytic propositions in common-sense psychology led to construction of an axiomatic system called psycho-logic. The undefined concepts of this system are semantic primitives assumed to be common to all human languages. Hence, Heider's discovery of analytic propositions of common-sense psychology led to a new view of psychology
Axiom · Cognitive psychology · Cognitive science · Common sense · Epistemology · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · Mathematics · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Social Representations and Identity
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,28 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2019 (12) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |