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This manuscript is based on my 1991 presidential address to the Association for Behavior Analysis. I dedicate it to B. F. Skinner and his empirical epistemology; to my students, who have taught me more than I have taught them; and to my earliest and still-current mentors in scientific psychology—Sid Bijou, Parker Lichtenstein, and Irv Wolf. Because the original address has been revised for archival publication, some issues have been formalized, some material added and deleted, and some figures altered or omitted. I thank Bernard Guerin, Bryan Midgley, Pete Peterson, Susan Schneider, Ilene Schwartz, and Jim Todd for their comments on earlier drafts of the manuscript. As for the figures, here and in the address, I thank Shelley Marcotte and Roger Poppen. Shelley was generous to a fault in assisting with graphics; Roger sent camera-ready copies of his cartoons.

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Morris, E.K. The Aim, Progress, and Evolution of Behavior Analysis. BEHAV ANALYST 15, 3–29 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03392582

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