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Somewhat True
About: Somewhat True is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2 publications have been published within this topic receiving 4 citations.
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TL;DR: In the past, any newly discovered object needed to be confirmed with optical observations as mentioned in this paper, and this is still somewhat true, although far less than in the past than it used to be.
Abstract: Historically, any newly discovered object needed to be “confirmed” with optical observations. Catalogs were published, such as the PKS (Parkes Catalog), with stamp-sized photographs that allowed us to “see” what was just found. This is still somewhat true, although far less than in the past.
3 citations
1 Jan 2015
TL;DR: For instance, the authors pointed out that the brain is the logical answer to the question: "Where else do thoughts, the supposed causes of behaviour, come from? The mind? What shapes that? Where is it to be found but in the brain?"
Abstract: What Skinner says in this quote is somewhat true and, to say the least, was a useful corrective in its time to the then dominant brands of mentalistic psychology, which saw (somewhat magically) individuals largely as the instigators of behavioural reactions to the environment that had shaped them. Where else do thoughts, the supposed causes of behaviour, come from? The mind? What shapes that? Where is it to be found but in the brain? Is it a product or a cause? How could the mind be a cause if it is a non-material, non-weighable, non-dissectible ‘something’ with ghostly properties? You may be puzzled, but what are you puzzled with? Your brain has to be the logical answer (see Swaab, 2014; Ryle, 1949). But then, brains develop, they do not arrive with us fully formed. Therefore, how much of the development is inside-out and how much outside-in?
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| 2015 | 1 |
| 2004 | 1 |