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The charge that operant principles are tautological is presented and examined. The tautology is seen as incidental, not necessary, and a schema is suggested that orders operant principles into an integrated set of non-tautological statements of general and derived propositions.
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Burgess, R.L., Akers, R.L. Are Operant Principles Tautological?. Psychol Rec 16, 305–312 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03393673
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