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The differential contributions of J. R. Kantor and B. F. Skinner for the construction of a scientific psychology are analysed through Kuhn’s notions about rules of correspondence between language and nature and exemplary rules in scientific problem solving.
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Ribes, E. The Relation Between Interbehaviorism and the Experimental Analysis of Behavior: The Search for a Paradigm. Psychol Rec 34, 567–573 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03394898
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