As Wundt stated in the Original Source Material on the Law of Psychic Resultants and the Principle of Creative Synthesis from the Outline of Psychology (1896),the ____ "finds its expression in the fact that every psychical compound shows attributes which may...be understood from the attributes of its elements...but which are by no means to be looked upon as the mere sum of the attributes of these elements.

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As Wundt stated in the Original Source Material on the Law of Psychic Resultants and the Principle of Creative Synthesis from the Outline of Psychology (1896),the ____ "finds its expression in the fact that every psychical compound shows attributes which may...be understood from the attributes of its elements...but which are by no means to be looked upon as the mere sum of the attributes of these elements.​

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The quote refers to the "law of psychic resultants," which is the idea that the attributes of a psychical compound (such as an emotion, thought, or perception) cannot simply be deduced from the attributes of its individual elements (such as sensations or feelings), but rather emerge through the interactions and synthesis of these elements.

As Wundt Stated in the Original Source Material on the Law