Psychical Distance Bullough Scale Lookup

Bounded offline reference: Bulloughs psychical distance describes a relation to an object that brackets practical personal concerns without mere indifference. Source: Bullough, Psychical Distance as a Factor in Art 1912. No canonical numeric scale or optimal universal emotional detachment. Only explicitly listed topics are supported; no complete external catalog or live corpus implied.

Description

Psychical distance is a philosophical account of a relation to experience rather than a standard numerical scale.

Psychical distance is a philosophical account of a relation to experience rather than a standard numerical scale.^[1]

This tool provides stored notes on Bullough's discussion without measuring emotional detachment.

When to use Psychical Distance Bullough Scale Lookup

Use this tool to read stored notes on Bullough's discussion without measuring emotional detachment.

How to use Psychical Distance Bullough Scale Lookup and how it works

Choose the exact supported topic token from the table below.
Enter topic and run the tool.
Read result.text using the meanings and sign conventions below.
Use the reference and limitations topics to understand scope; read the relevant original source when a full interpretation is needed.

Input field	Meaning	Value type	Requirement
topic	Topic, on the measurement or ledger basis specified below.	string	Required; branch conditions below

Choose one exact case-sensitive supported topic from the table below. The implementation uses that token to select a stored text record and returns result.text unchanged; it does not trim the token or perform a live search. Unknown tokens, blank strings and wrong types are errors. The reference topic returns a stored source pointer, not the original work or an independently verified bibliographic record. These introductory records are bounded summaries and cannot replace reading the applicable text, assessing a specific artwork or validating a research claim.

text=storedInventory[exactTopic]

Use the stated ordering, units and branch conditions.

Exact topic token	Selected record
summary	Introductory concept summary.
reference	Stored source pointer; not the source text itself.
limitations	Scope and interpretive limits.

Output field	Meaning	Value type
result	Object containing the fields below.	object
result.text	Exact stored text selected by the supported topic token.	string

json

{
  "input": {
    "topic": "summary"
  },
  "output": {
    "result": {
      "text": "Bulloughs psychical distance describes a relation to an object that brackets practical personal concerns without mere indifference."
    }
  }
}

Limitations and assumptions

This tool contains bounded introductory text for the listed topics. It does not search the original work, install a complete scholarly catalog, establish a current consensus or assess an artwork, observer or community. Stored reference pointers must be checked against the edition and interpretive context you need.

Supply explicit values and dense aligned arrays. Unexpected fields, wrong types and nonfinite scalar values are rejected; fixed-token, alignment and other branch conditions are explained above. A successful false flag, empty match list or unknown-evidence list differs from an input error. Extremely large inputs or nonrepresentable results may fail.

Alternative or Complementary methods

Use Beardsley Aesthetic Attitude Criteria Lookup for a related operation: Aesthetic-attitude and experience criteria belong to disputed philosophical accounts.

Use Dewey Art As Experience Consummatory Moment Lookup for a related operation: Art as experience concerns how an experience develops and becomes integrated.

References

Psychical Distance Bullough Scale Lookup — tool.io

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