Zudini Verena
Department of Psychology of the University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy.
J Hist Behav Sci. 2011 Winter;47(1):70-87. doi: 10.1002/jhbs.20472.
Historians acknowledge Euclid and Fechner, respectively, as the founders of classical geometry and classical psychophysics. At all times, their ideas have been reference points and have shared the same destiny of being criticized, corrected, and even radically rejected, in their theoretical and methodological aspects and in their epistemological value. According to a model of measurement of magnitudes which goes back to Euclid, Fechner (1860) developed a theory for psychical magnitudes that opened a lively debate among numerous scholars. Fechner's attempt to apply the model proposed by Euclid to subjective sensation magnitudes--and the debate that followed--generated ideas and concepts that were destined to have rich developments in the psychological and (more generally) scientific field of the twentieth century and that still animate current psychophysics.
历史学家分别将欧几里得和费希纳视为经典几何学和经典心理物理学的奠基人。一直以来，他们的思想都是参照点，并且在理论和方法论层面以及认识论价值方面，都有着被批评、修正甚至被彻底摒弃的相同命运。根据一种可追溯到欧几里得的量度测量模型，费希纳（1860年）提出了一种关于心理量值的理论，这在众多学者中引发了一场激烈的辩论。费希纳将欧几里得提出的模型应用于主观感觉量值的尝试以及随后的辩论，催生了一些思想和概念，这些思想和概念注定要在20世纪的心理学领域以及（更广泛地说）科学领域得到丰富发展，并且至今仍活跃于当前的心理物理学中。
