In his mid-career,Fechner was tormented by an apparently unresolvable conflict between
A) a purely mechanistic "night view" versus a "day view" that saw the universe as having some soul-like properties.
B) innate versus learned factors in the ability to discriminate stimulus intensities.
C) mechanistic versus vitalistic explanations for sensory discriminations.
D) philosophical hedonism versus stoicism.

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Fechner was torn between his belief in a strictly mechanistic view of the world and his desire to see the universe as having some kind of soul or spiritual essence. He called these his "night view" and "day view," respectively, and struggled to reconcile the two throughout his career. This conflict is evident in his work on psychophysics, where he attempted to develop a quantitative, scientific approach to the study of sensation and perception while also grappling with more mystical and spiritual questions about the nature of consciousness and the self.

In His Mid-Career,Fechner Was Tormented by an Apparently Unresolvable Conflict