Reflections on Behaviorism and Society. Chapter 17: Freedom and Dignity Revisited. Quote 1

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Reflections on Behaviorism and Society. Chapter 17: Freedom and Dignity Revisited. Quote 1

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“[Many of my critics] have resorted to highly emotional terms, and a kind of hysterical blindness seems to have prevented some of them from reading what I actually wrote.” (p. 195)

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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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“[Many of my critics] have resorted to highly emotional terms, and a kind of hysterical blindness seems to have prevented some of them from reading what I actually wrote.” (p. 195)

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