ABSTRACT

From the beginning of the Gestalt movement in 1912 the impact of Max Werheimer's dictum (Spillmann, 2012b; Wertheimer, 1912, 1923, 1925) and precisely articulated by Kurt Koffka as

It has been said: The whole is more than the sum of its parts. It is more correct to say that the whole is something else than the sum of its parts, because summing up is a meaningless procedure, whereas the whole-part relationship is meaningful.

(Koffka, 1935: 176)