On the issue of Skinner & the conceptual nervous system, Paul Brandon wrote:

> I'm ashamed to admit it; I shoulda know! ;-)
> BFS uses the term in The Behavior of Organisms (1938, p421) and certainly
> sounds like he's coining it.

Actually, I'm ashamed to admit that I was not able to trace the phrase back
to 1938 for the simple reason that I don't even have a copy of Behavior of
Organisms. The page # in the source was even given in that 1950 paper. We're
not being very good behaviorists these days, are we?

John

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John Serafin
Professor of Psychology
Saint Vincent College
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Latrobe, PA 15650
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