Note 14 — III The Viewpoint of Introspection

This is the famous constancy hypothesis. Some introspectionists have said that gestalt psychology, as any science must, has also to acknowledge certain constant relations between given conditions and subsequent effects. Quite! We do not argue against constant relations existing between conditions and results in general, but only against a constant relation between local stimulation and local experience. For brevity’s sake we call that “the” constancy hypothesis.