Contingencies of Reinforcement. Chapter 4: The experimental analysis of behavior. Quote 28

“The use of concepts and laws derived from an experimental analysis in the interpretation of daily life is also a source of misunderstanding. An analogy from another science may be helpful. Geophysics interprets the present condition of the accessible parts of the earth in terms of presumed conditions in the mantle and core. It appeals quite freely to physical laws derived from laboratory analyses of matter under various pressures and temperatures, even though it is merely an assumption that comparable states actually prevail in the interior of the earth.” (p. 100)

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