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Mechanistic Ontology and Contextualistic Epistemology: A Contradiction Within Behavior Analysis

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    Dermot Barnes & Bryan Roche

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Barnes, D., Roche, B. In Response. BEHAV ANALYST 17, 165–168 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03392662

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