Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A physical, biological, psychological, or symbolic configuration or pattern of elements so unified as a whole that its properties cannot be derived from a simple summation of its parts.
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- noun A
collection ofphysical ,biological ,psychological orsymbolic entities that creates aunified concept ,configuration orpattern which isgreater than thesum of itsparts (of acharacter ,personality , orbeing ) - noun
shape ,form
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- noun a configuration or pattern of elements so unified as a whole that it cannot be described merely as a sum of its parts
Etymologies
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Examples
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They even psychobabble together: "We achieved what I call gestalt," says Gore.
Friends For Now 2008
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The gestalt is just as important as the elements, though.
Interview on Book Cover Design - Susan Wenger - by The Creative Penn | The Creative Penn 2009
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The gestalt is what you really wanted to transmit, not the specific picture.
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The question that arises from the evolution of the gestalt is whether something that is not human, is more than human, can be held to the same moral standards as regular humans.
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Description: Transcript, 37 pp. Abstract: Ross begins with a discussion of his early involvement with John Ward on the Cape Cod project and his early experimentation in gestalt programming with Air Force and Emerson Electric Company programmers on the 1103 at Eglin Air Force Base.
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But — one might coldly ask, with a certain gestalt bent — don’t the miserable survivors at least make better widgets?
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But — one might coldly ask, with a certain gestalt bent — don’t the miserable survivors at least make better widgets?
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In a clear departure from Brentano, Husserl and Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty brings in the idea of gestalt and dares to interrogate the lived-body.
Merleau-Ponty takes the tradition of Western philosophy to its limits Tusar N Mohapatra 2007
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Showed up on PBS in the U.S., and was a fascinating exploration of the idea of gestalt, i.e., wherein the whole is viewed as more than the sum of its parts.
Gestalt Steve Perry 2007
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In a clear departure from Brentano, Husserl and Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty brings in the idea of gestalt and dares to interrogate the lived-body.
Merleau-Ponty and The Mother Tusar N Mohapatra 2005
fbharjo commented on the word gestalt
in the sense of "to put in place"
July 25, 2007
kneedeep commented on the word gestalt
As in the "Gestalt" in your brain, which is a series of over a hundred patterns which allow your brain to do things such as find pictures is clouds, or see a box in this: , versus just two brackets. These patterns are often fooled by Optical Illusions.
April 30, 2009
qroqqa commented on the word gestalt
Although the link between low compliance and dementia has yet to be comprehensively shown, he says, "there is a gestalt that it's broadly true."
—New Scientist, 13 June 2009
Here 'gestalt' seems to be used as something like "broad picture, rough consensus", a meaning new to me.
June 15, 2009