HES: Re: DISC--Optical illusion that illustrates Hayek's The Sensory Order

[Steven Horwitz]

E. Roy Weintraub wrote:
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> I hope folks are not suggesting that Hayek "got" this from nowhere. My 
> copy of Pearson's /Grammar of Science/ (3rd ed. 1911, printed in 
> Austria) has its Chapter 2 concerned with just such 
> experience-processing. And Bruce Caldwell has been showing how 
> /Sensory Order/ grew from Kant as well as Hayek's own student paper.


Of course Roy.  But because Hayek is, as far as I know, the only 
*economist* to be recognized as having contributed to that line of 
thinking in cognitive theory, it made sense in posting it here to 
emphasize how it was evidence for his work.

Steve Horwitz