behaviourist
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.81 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
British standard spelling of behaviorist
noun
British standard spelling of behaviorist
Example Sentences
- "“Cogito, ergo sum” would be regarded by most people as having a true premiss. This, however, the behaviourist denies. He maintains that our knowledge of ourselves is no different in kind from our knowledge of other people."
- "Thought must be present without speech. […] But not even a behaviourist would say that whenever we recognize a road or building, or identify our own hat in a collection, the process consists of sotto voce speech."
- "There are in fact two different objections here. The weaker of these is the one contained in the joke about two behaviourists meeting on the street. One says to the other, ‘You feel fine, how do I feel?’ The joke assumes that behaviourists think that we have better access to the mental states of others than we do to our own."
Etymology
Etymology tree English behaviour Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English behaviourist From behaviour + -ist.