John Stuart Mill
Mill, John Stuart (1806-1873) Although psychology was more of a hobby than a vocation for James Mill, his son, JS Mill was a major proponent of the systematic study of human nature. Like his father, JS was an elementalist. Like his father, JS Mill accepted contiguity as a law of association, but also believed that similarity and intensity were important. Unlike his father, JS held that the mind is active, and that the process of thinking was more like “mental chemistry” than mental mechanics. According the JS, ideas can fuse together, creating something new out of simple sensory elements.
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