On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Stephen Black wrote:
(with reference to the observation that Skinner, not Hebb, first used
the term "conceptual nervous system")
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> Hey, how about that? (or !). It's there all right, and he references
> _The Behavior of Organisms_ (1938) as the place where he said it
> first. I wonder if Hebb credited Skinner for the phrase--I always
> thought (see above) that it originated with Hebb.
>
And to answer my own question, Hebb did credit Skinner, sort-of. He
said, right at the beginning of "Drives and the CNS"
"In great part, the difficulty concerns that c.n.s., or "conceptual
nervous system," which Skinner disavowed and from whose influence he
and others have tried to escape."
But no specific reference, and no entry in the reference list. I never
realized that this sentence was intended to indicate that Skinner
originated the phrase, which, as I've now been informed, he did.
-Stephen
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