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Not all desired things are valuable, but rather only those which are worthy of being desired. Whether this worthiness belongs to a thing, however, is not in the particular case yielded from the investigation of the objective nature of the thing, but rather from the subjective consideration of the desire directed at the thing. From the examination of our own mental activity in the act of desire we discern whether this is directed at something valuable or not.

Christian von Ehrenfels

We must also accept the possibility of Gestalt qualities comprehending complexes of elements of different categories.

Christian von Ehrenfels

By a Gestalt quality we understand a positive content of presentation bound up in consciousness with the presence of complexes of mutually separable (i.e., independently presentable) elements. That complex of presentations which is necessary for the existence of a given Gestalt quality we call the foundation [Grundlage] of that quality.

Christian von Ehrenfels

Christian von Ehrenfels

Christian von Ehrenfels

Born: June 20, 1859

Died: September 8, 1932 (aged 73)

Bio: Christian von Ehrenfels was an Austrian philosopher, and is known as one of the founders and precursors of Gestalt psychology.

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