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analytical behaviourism

analytical behaviourism noun: synonym of behaviorism.

Noun

analytical behaviourism (uncountable)

  1. Synonym of behaviorism
    • In philosophy, behaviourism did (naturally) take a metaphysical form: chiefly that of analytical behaviourism, the claim that mental ascriptions simply mean things about behavioural responses to environmental impingements. Thus, ‘Edmund is in pain’ means, not anything about Edmund’s putative...1996, William G. Lycan, “Philosophy of Mind”, in Nicholas Bunnin, E. P. Tsui-James, editors, The Blackwell Companion to Philosophy, page 169
    • Thus we arrive at analytical or philosophical behaviourism: just as fragility is the disposition to break on dropping […] so desire for beer is the disposition to behave in what we believe is a beer-getting manner, and this is a reflection of our very concept of desire for beer.1997, David Braddon-Mitchell, Frank Jackson, Philosophy of Mind and Cognition, Blackwell Publishers, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 31

Synonyms of analytical behaviourism

Forms of analytical behaviourism

alternative USanalytical behaviorism

Origin of analytical behaviourism

From analytical + behaviourism.

Questions about analytical behaviourism

What does analytical behaviourism mean?
Analytical behaviourism means synonym of behaviorism.
What part of speech is analytical behaviourism?
Analytical behaviourism is a noun.

Words near analytical behaviourism in the dictionary

  1. analytic philosophy
  2. analytic psychology
  3. analytic tradecraft
  4. analytical
  5. analytical behaviorism
  6. analytical behaviourism
  7. analytical chemistry
  8. analytical editing
  9. analytical engine
  10. analytical engines
  11. analytical entries

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