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Anonymous Posted 8 years ago
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"Analytical or logical behaviorism is a theory within philosophy about the meaning or semantics of mental terms or concepts. It says that the very idea of a mental state or condition is the idea of a behavioral disposition or family of behavioral tendencies, evident in how a person behaves in one situation rather than another. When we attribute a belief, for example, to someone, we are not saying that he or she is in a particular internal state or condition. Instead, we are characterizing the person in terms of what he or she might do in specific situations or environmental interactions. For example, when he is angry his face is red, he yells and gets addressive." How can we paraphrase this?

  

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Why do you want to paraphrase it?

Are there some parts that you do not understand? What are they?

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anonymousHow can we paraphrase this?

I don't know about paraphrasing, but you can summarize it as follows:

The theory of analytical behaviorism claims that mental states are tendencies to act in certain ways, and not internal states that cannot be observed.

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