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substantiate this relativistic standpoint on the Cosmo-microphysical ground supported by Einstienian Doctrine of Relativity? and Maxwell's equation of electromagnetism which go fundamentally against the notion of absolute truth. When we say, we know this, I am saying more than is strictly correct, because all we know is what happens when the waves reach our bodies, 2
Similarly, researches in Psychology of thinking3, Perception of self and conception of self in Child Psychology and Psycho-analytical studies in Freudian Narcissism or Adlerian Power factors support relativism. The psychological researches into the nature of emotions was substantiated by the writing of Dostoevski, Kirkegaard, Neitzche, Freud, Jung and others who tried to reveal the force of conscious and subconscious feelings on the function of character and life. James uttered a definite activistic voluntaristic note in his Radical Empiricism. Graham Wallas showed how political aspect were dictated by emotional attachment to Party Shibboleths. 6 Mc Dougall attacked the transcendent dextalisin of the German idealistic rationalism as well as the sociological hedonism and the epicurean rationalism of the classical economist and the Benthamite liberals. Thus relativism in Psychology is a truism.?
1. Encyclopaedia Britannica, Vol. 19, p. 89. Article on
Relativity' by Sir James Hopwood Jeans. Article on Phi
losophical Consequences of Relativity by B. Russell. 2. B. Russell : Outlines of Philosophy, Chapter on Relati
vity, p. 137. 3. (a) Psychology of Thought, Two Vols., Brand Shard.
(b) Creative Thinking, Warthi mer.
(c) Psychology of Thinking, Dunlop; Humphry. 4. Pia get : Work on Child Psychology. 5. Dr. Mohasin : Oral discussion on this subject on 27-12-53, 6. Dr. V. P. Verma : Rationalism, pp. 19-20. 7. Dr. Mohasin : Oral Discussion on 27-12-53.
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