Posted by alexandra_k on March 28, 2005, at 0:37:05
In reply to Re: (ii) The Socio-Cognitive Model, posted by Dinah on March 28, 2005, at 0:19:21
> Because most of psychology (outpatient at least) is self report. And not all behavior is visible.
Ah.
> And to miss the rather obvious conclusion that people can lie and misrepresent in both directions seems relatively lacking in logic.Ah. A distinction may be useful:
(a) metaphysics - the study of what is.
(b) epistemology - the study of knowledge.The point is that what is the case (metaphysics) is one thing... and what (if anything) we can know about it (epistemology) is another. The behaviourists are just making the metaphysical claim that mental illnesses are 'nothing but' their behaviours meeting the DSM criteria (whether anyone observes them to meet it or not). So a misdiagnosis could be made on the basis of limited observations of their behaviour.
> And mathematics (especially algebra, though I suppose geometry too) is the best teacher of logic I know.Hmm.
Logic is the best teacher of Logic.
(I have done logic - see {joke})
I can't do math :-(
I thought you might have been poking me.
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