philosophical behaviourism
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.42 in modern English
47
Scrabble Score
25
Letters
5
Syllables
14
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Since philosophy became, for many of its practitioners, a study of everyday language, philosophical behaviourism has usually taken the form of analytical behaviourism à la Mace; though it is often presented in jargon like ‘discovering the logic of mental-conduct concepts’. This is a way of saying ‘describing the uses of the words with which we describe a person’s mind’."
- "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."
- "Psychological behaviourism, as we have seen, is a methodological view — a doctrine concerning the way in which one should go about doing psychology. Philosophical behaviourism, in contrast, is an analytic view — a substantive theory of what mental states are."
Etymology
From philosophical + behaviourism.
Usage
- British usage
- Uncountable
Inflected Forms
Synonyms
analytic behaviorism
analytic behaviourism
analytical behaviorism
analytical behaviourism
behaviorism
behaviourism
logical behaviourism
philosophical behaviorism
philosophical behaviourism