About Behaviorism, Chapter 3: Innate Behavior, Quote 5

“There are certain remarkable similarities between contingencies of survival and contingencies of reinforcement. Both exemplify, as I have noted, a kind of causality which was discovered very late in the history of human thought. Both account for purpose by moving it after the fact, and both are relevant to the question of a creative design.” (p. 45)

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