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Quotes from J.R. Kantor's (1888-1984) naturalistic and field-theoretic system of philosophy (Interbehaviorism) and psychology (Interbehavioral Psychology).

Scientific situations as much as any other display evaluations and values. Evaluations pertain to events investigated, to methods used, and the interpretations of results obtained.


Similar deterioration of institutions occur in the changed functioning of political processes; so that they are no longer reacted to as genuine administrative agencies but rather as exploitative activities of office-holding and the maladministration of public funds.


In philosophical situations cultural reactions and valuations may center around problems of ontology or epistemology. Students become ingrained with attitudes such as realism, idealism, pragmatism, phenomenology, or linguistic analysis.


When railroads are mechanisms for the gathering together and distribution of goods according to the needs of people only, rather than the tools of financial profits and competitive conquests, we have similarly superior situations.


Psychology is the science of the reactions of individuals to stimuli. The two variables which the science demands as the minimal description of an event are persons and the objects to which they react. These objects may be persons or things.


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This week we have the shortest academic paper ever published and a classic example of humor in science. Paper here: fermatslibrary.com/s/the-unsucces…

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Paper here: fermatslibrary.com/s/the-unsucces…

The cornerstone of all biology is the theory of evolution. It is this theory which provides a basis for all biological facts and principles, and gives meaning to organic phenomena.


Ordinary conversational language we describe as a response to the thing spoken of and the person spoken to. The accompanying diagrams make this clear.

JR_Kantor's tweet image. Ordinary conversational language we describe as a response to the thing spoken of and the person spoken to. The accompanying diagrams make this clear.

Linguistic activity in some form or other is basic to all of our complicated forms of conduct such as thinking and reasoning.


Defenders of the practice of ascribing intelligence to a tool or machine may declare that it is merely a semantic custom. Doing so is a persistent mode of behavior.


Serious users of the vocabulary allotting intelligence to machines fail to realize the violence they are doing both to the nature of appliances and machines as well as to the nature of intelligence and psychological capacity in general.


Intelligence is an activity, not a power or property of things, and entails a behavioral spontaneity based on previous contacts with similar or resembling activities.


Is the vigorous stress of reinforcement based on the error of escalating a spedfic datum into a general principle?


No matter how marvelous and effective a computer is, it is only the programmer who makes it work.


While it is true that no object can function as an aid unless it is structurally suitable for the purpose at hand, in actual practice the type and nature of aids must be instrumental within the behavioral system in which it is employed.


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