About Behaviorism, Chapter 14: Summing Up, Quote 21

“It would be absurd for the behaviorist to contend that he is in any way exempt from his analysis. He cannot step out of the causal stream and observe behavior from some special point of vantage, “perched on the epicycle of Mercury.” In the very act of analyzing human behavior he is behaving—as, in the very act of analyzing thinking, the philosopher is thinking.” (p. 258)

 

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