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Persons Quotes by B.F. Skinner
- Unable to understand how or why the person we see behaves as he does, we attribute his behavior to a person we cannot see, whose…
- A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid…
- Fame is also won at the expense of others. Even the well-deserved honors of the scientist or man of learning are unfair to many persons…
- In the traditional view, a person is free. He is autonomous in the sense that his behavior is uncaused. He can therefore be held responsible…
- A person's genetic endowment, a product of the evolution of the species, is said to explain part of the workings of his mind and his…
- Except when physically restrained, a person is least free or dignified when he is under threat of punishment, and unfortunately most people often are.
- Many social practices essential to the welfare of the species involve the control of one person by another, and no one can suppress them who…
- To say that a man is sinful because he sins is to give an operational definition of sin. To say that he sins because he…
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