Recent Issues. Chapter 11: A New Preface to Beyond Freedom and Dignity. Quote 1

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Recent Issues. Chapter 11: A New Preface to Beyond Freedom and Dignity. Quote 1

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Post published:March 14, 2019
Post category:Skinner's Quote of the Day

“If people were actually free to do as they pleased, even if only occasionally, a science of behavior was impossible, and some critics dismissed my book out of hand on that ground” (p. 113)

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Verbal Behavior: Extended Edition. Chapter 8: The Verbal Operant as a Unit of Analysis. Quote 5
The pathological condition of verbal behavior called aphasia often emphasizes functional differences which are hard to understand in terms of the traditional account … The aphasic has lost some of the functional relationships which control his verbal behavior. A response of a given form may no longer be under the control of one functional relation, although it is still under the control of another. (p. 190)
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“If people were actually free to do as they pleased, even if only occasionally, a science of behavior was impossible, and some critics dismissed my book out of hand on that ground” (p. 113)

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