"Die Verwirrung und Öde der Psychologie ist nicht damit zu erklären, dass sie eine »junge Wissenschaft« sei; ihr Zustand ist mit dem der Physik z.B. in ihrer Frühzeit nicht zu vergleichen. (Eher noch mit dem gewissen Zweige der Mathematik. Mengenlehre.) Es bestehen nämlich, in der Psychologie, experimentelle Methoden und Begriffsverwirrung. (Wie im andern Fall Begriffsverwirrung und Beweismethoden.) // Das Bestehen der experimentellen Methode läßt uns glauben, wir hätten das Mittel, die Probleme, die uns beunruhigen, loszuwerden; obgleich Problem und Methode windschief aneinander vorbeilaufen."
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Philosophische Untersuchungen (1953, postum), Ed. Anscombe, Rhees. Teil II, XIV. Suhrkamp TB 1971, S. 267
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
1889 – 1951
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