Lexicon of Arguments

 

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Theoretical Terms/observation/Sellars: theoretical terms are defined in behaviorist psychology not only not in terms of open behavior, but neither in terms of nerves, synapses, neuron irritations, etc.
A behaviorist theory of behavior is not as such already a physiological explanation of behavior. For a structure of theoretical concepts to be suitable to provide explanations for behavior, it must be impossible to identify the theoretical concepts with the concepts of neurophysiology.
>Neuroscience, >Theoretical terms, >Behaviorism, >Observation sentences, >Observation language.
However, you operate under a certain regulative ideal, the ideal of a coherent system.
The behavioral theory is not fixed from the outset to a physiological identification of all its concepts.
>Physical/psychic.
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II 325
Action>Sellars: fundamental beliefs are expressed in uniformity of behavior.
>Regularities.
This does not mean that no deviations are possible, but only that the representation of a principle is in any case also characterized by uniformity of behavior.
>Principles.