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    Strictly analytical methods that decompose behavior into simple elements are often inadequate to explain the meaning of psychological phenomena.

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    • 1.Dewey's reflex arc critique showed that stimulus and response are abstractions from a continuous coordinated act, not independently existing units.
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    • 2.Meaning in psychological phenomena arises from the functional role of acts within ongoing organism-environment transactions, not from isolated atomic constituents.
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    • 3.Wittgenstein's rule-following arguments similarly establish that meaning requires context and practice, rendering atomistic decomposition insufficient by definition.
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    • 1.Gestalt psychology demonstrates that perceptual wholes possess properties irreducible to their constituent parts, as Köhler showed with figure-ground phenomena.
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    • 2.If emergent properties of psychological wholes cannot be derived from elements, then elementarist decomposition systematically omits explanatorily essential features.
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    • 1.Analytical methods attempt to build up complex behavior from simple constituent elements.
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    • 2.The meaning of psychological phenomena cannot always be recovered by assembling simple elements.
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    Dewey’s methodological lesson regarding instincts was twofold; first, one cannot premise an empirical science on unquestioned, metaphysical posits; even basic terms must be open to revision or deletion; second, strictly analytical methods using simple elements to build up complex behavior are often inadequate to explain the meaning of psychological phenomena. This lesson also applies to perception and sensation. Dewey attacked the view, common in his day, that a perception (1) was simply and ext
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