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See also:ERNST See also:MACH (1838– ) , See also:Austrian physicist and psychologist, was See also:born on the 18th of See also:February '838 at Turas in See also:Moravia, and studied at See also:Vienna . He was See also:professor of See also:mathematics at Gratz (1864–1867), of physics at See also:Prague (1867-1895), and of physics at Vienna (1895–1901) . In 1879 and 188o as See also:Rector Magnificus he fought against the introduction of See also:Czech instead of See also:German in the Prague University . In 1901 he was made a member of the Austrian See also:house of peers . In See also:philosophy he began with a strong predilection for the See also:physical See also:side of See also:psychology, and at an See also:early See also:age he came to the conclusion that all existence is sensation, and, after a See also:lapse into notimenalism under the See also:influence of See also:Fechner's . See also:Psychophysics, finally adopted a universal physical phenomenalism . The Ego he considers not an entity sharply distinguished from the Non-ego, but merely, as it were, a See also:medium of continuity of sensory impressions . His whole theory appears to be vitiated by the confusion of physics and psychology . See also:WoRKs.—Kompendium der Physik See also:fur Mediziner (Vienna, 1863) ; Einleitung in See also:die See also:Helmholtz'sche Musiktheorie (Gratz, 1866) ; Die Gesch. u. d . Wurzel d . Satzes von d . Erhaltung d . Arbeit (Prague, 1872) ; Grundlinien d . Lehre v. d . Bewegungsempfindungen (See also:Leipzig, 1875) ; Die Mechanik in ihrer Entwickelung (Leipzig, 1883; rev. ed., 19o8; Eng. trans., T . J . McCormack, 19oz) ; Beitrage zur Analyse d . Emptiindungen (See also:Jena, 1886), 5th ed., 1906, entitled Die Analyse d . Empfindungen; Leitfaden d . Physik fur Studierende (Prague, 1881, in collaboration) ; Popularwissenschaftliche Vorlesungen (3rd ed., Leipzig, 1903) ; Die Prinzipien d . Warmelehre (2nd ed., 1900) ; Eekenntnis and Irrtum (Leipzig, 1905) . |
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