In answering their critics, Brody and Oppenheim offer a circular description of behavioristic method which poses more questions than it answers. An analysis of the terms they employ and the statements they make reveals that Brody and Oppenheim mislead their readers when they pretend that the validity of behavioristic method rests on public observation of an already existing reality called “behavior.”
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