Paul, you are one of the very few that provide the notorious and
ubiquitous quote by Watson in its' entirety. Most sources don't include
the last part where Watson states "I am going beyond my fact and I admit
it, but so have . . " Bet many on this listserv have not even been the
complete quote.
Joan
Joan Warmbold Boggs
jwarm...@oakton.edu
Paul Brandon wrote:
The quotation:
“ Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to
bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to
become any type of specialist I might select – doctor, lawyer, artist,
merchant-chief and, yes, even beggar-man and thief, regardless of his talents,
penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race of his ancestors. I am
going beyond my facts and I admit it, but so have the advocates of the contrary
and they have been doing it for many thousands of years. [Behaviorism (1930),
p. 82] ”
Note the second clause of the first sentence; I suspect that Lovaas would have
agreed (to answer Jim's question as well).
Same logic as Archimedes' 'Give me a long enough lever and a place to rest my
fulcrum and I could move the Earth.'
Stating the conditions under which you could accomplish something doesn't mean
that it's likely that you would actually HAVE those conditions available to you.
Paul Brandon
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