Psychologism is a generic type of position in philosophy according to which psychology plays a central role in grounding or explaining some other, non-psychological type of fact or law. The most common types of psychologism are logical psychologism and mathematical psychologism. Logical psychologism is a position in logic (or the philosophy of log...
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theory that mathematical or metaphysical laws can be derived from psychology
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in philosophy, the view that problems of epistemology (i.e., of the validity of human knowledge) can be solved satisfactorily by the psychological ... [4 related articles]
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a philosophy that holds that human knowledge can be expanded solely through philosophical study.
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(Ger. Psychologismus) The tendency of such philosophers as Hume, J. S. Mill and William James to approach philosophical problems, whether ethical, logical, aesthetic or metaphysical, from the stand-point of psychology. Psychologismus is used by Husserl and other German writers as a term of reproach which suggests the exaggeration of the psychologi....
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emphasis upon psychological factors in the development of a theory, as in history or philosophy. · a term or concept of psychology or psychoanalysis, esp. when used in ordinary conversation or a nontechnical context.
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