Recent Issues. Chapter 11: A New Preface to Beyond Freedom and Dignity. Quote 3

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Recent Issues. Chapter 11: A New Preface to Beyond Freedom and Dignity. Quote 3

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Post published:March 18, 2019
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“Survival is only one kind of selective consequence, however. Most of what we do can be traced to two other kinds …” (p. 114)

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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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“Survival is only one kind of selective consequence, however. Most of what we do can be traced to two other kinds …” (p. 114)

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