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From: tim@cmu-cs-k.ARPA (Tim Maroney)
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Subject: Re: Evidences for Religion (reposting)
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Date: Mon, 22-Jul-85 05:54:20 EDT
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Aha!  At last a sensible if incorrect comment about behaviorism, from
Charley Wingate.  Behaviorism does not say that mental states can be ignored
in psychological modelling, it just says that there is no way at present to
verifiably observe them in the laboratory.  Thus it doesn't deal with them,
because behaviorism is a scientific paradigm, not a speculative one.

This is not to denigrate speculative paradigms in psychology.  They can be
quite interesting and valuable.  But behaviorism is not one of them.
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