ABSTRACT
The first question that arises within the purview of an examination of the empirical material offered in support of the gestalt theory, naturally relates to the phenomena which we are accustomed to denote by the word “gestalt” even in everyday speech. These are the “gestalten” in the narrowest sense of the word, apparent e.g. in optical perception, “figural structures” as, to lend more precision to the terminology of the gestalt-theoretical school, we propose to call them in contrast to the other “structures” to be treated of hereafter.
