Beyond Freedom and Dignity. Chapter 6: Values. Quote 13

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The contingencies of survival could not generate a process of conditioning which took into account how behavior produced its consequences. The only useful relation was temporal: a process could evolve in which a reinforcer strengthened any behavior it followed. (p. 120)

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