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George Berkeley
George Berkeley
Irish philosopher
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Henri Tajfel
Polish-born British social psychologist
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Max Wertheimer
Czech-born psychologist
Edwin H. Land
Edwin Herbert Land
American inventor and physicist
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James J. Gibson
American psychologist and philosopher
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Gustav Fechner
German philosopher and physicist
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Wolfgang Köhler
German psychologist
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George S. Klein
American psychologist
Kurt Koffka, c. 1928.
Kurt Koffka
German psychologist
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Dignāga
Buddhist logician
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H.H. Price
British philosopher
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Ewald Hering
German physiologist and psychologist
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Joy Paul Guilford
American psychologist