The perennial debate which has ensued over whether behavioral or phenomenological approaches to psychology are the more “scientific” and fruitful rests on fundamental confusions in the way the language and concepts of these approaches are employed. This issue is analyzed in depth, sources of confusion are analyzed, and how the two approaches may be related is suggested.
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