[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Throughout his campaign,Obama has often stressed the importance of > unity and togetherness.His emphasis on the power of interdependence > and the dynamism > of total experiences are elements of Gestralt.As a matter of fact,in > his classic speech on race,he even used the expression "the whole is > greater than the sum of its > parts." > Btw,which one of the Gestalt founders-Kohler,Kofka Wertheimer coined > that expression? I believe it (or at least its spirit) dates back earlier to Christian Von Ehrenfels, who invented the idea of the Gestalt-qualit¨t. He was supervisor to Wertheimer, I believe (though I would have to check to be certain).
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