Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

analytical behaviorism

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 2.15 in modern English

Syllables: an-a-lyt-i-cal be-hav-ior-ism
IPA

36

Scrabble Score

21

Letters

8

Syllables

15

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Synonym of behaviorism.

American usage; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"On the other hand, there have been many who would claim that all psychological terms are empirical terms. This is the program of logical or analytical behaviorism associated with the early work of Carnap and Hempel, but both of these men and most others have since given up the program because no adequate analyses of psychological expressions in terms of physicalistic expressions have been produced."
"According to Armstrong, Analytical Behaviorism accounts for mental processes as the behavior of men's bodies, and not the behavior of men."
"Given this observation, and Peirce’s insistence on the existence of mental states, the well-known objections to the thesis of analytical behaviorism will not apply to Peirce’s treatment."

Etymology

From analytical + behaviorism.

Usage

American usage
Uncountable

Inflected Forms

analytical behaviourism (alternative)

Synonyms

analytic behaviorism analytic behaviourism analytical behaviorism analytical behaviourism behaviorism behaviourism logical behaviourism philosophical behaviorism philosophical behaviourism

Questions

What does analytical behaviorism mean?: Synonym of behaviorism.
Where does analytical behaviorism come from?: From analytical + behaviorism.

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