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Wundt

American  
[voont] / vʊnt /

noun

  1. Wilhelm Max 1832–1920, German physiologist and psychologist.


Wundt British  
/ vʊnt /

noun

  1. Wilhelm Max (ˈvɪlhɛlm maks). 1832–1920, German experimental psychologist

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When Wundt established his laboratory, he was hoping, most specifically, to find a way to measure the speed of mental processes in order to discover the elements that made up thought.

From Scientific American Jul. 31, 2012

But even with that narrowed scope, we still come up against the same problem: can we really call Wundt the point of origin?

From Scientific American Jul. 31, 2012

Wundt, he wrote, was going about it all wrong—much as the person who analyzes the content of bricks in order to understand the nature of a house.

From Scientific American Jul. 31, 2012

The knowledge of human psychology was thrown into reverse and the animals were credited with consciousness, introspective, free will, after the German school led by Wilhelm Max Wundt.

From Time Magazine Archive

The German philosophers, Wundt and Paulsen, for example, argue that the soul cannot be a substance.

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter

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