Since we have not clearly identified the significant data of a science of behavior, we do not arrive well prepared at the second stage of theory building, at which we are to express relations among data. Observed relations of this sort are the facts of a science—or, when a sufficient degree of generality has been reached, its laws. (p. 353)
Cumulative Record. Chapter 23: Current Trends in Experimental Psychology. Quote 16
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