"Leibniz foreshadowed the entire doctrine of the unconscious, but Herbart actually began it. Wundt was to appeal first to unconscious inference in order to explain perception, and then to apperception. Fechner was to take from Herbart the notion of the measurement of the magnitude..."
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Edwin Boring (1929) A History of Experimental Psychology; 2nd ed. 1950 p. 246 (p. 257 in 1950 edition)
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Johann Friedrich Herbart
(4 May 1776 – 14 August 1841) was a German philosopher, psychologist and founder of pedagogy as an academic discipline.
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