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Problems with the concept of force in the momentum metaphor

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 September 2001

David Harper
Affiliation:
School of Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand david.harper@vuw.ac.nz www.vuw.ac.nz/psyc/harper/harper.html

Abstract

Although the momentum metaphor is successful in many ways, there remain problems with the adequacy of the notion of a force in the behavioral sense and the question of whether the conditions used to apply force can truly be separated from the conditions that establish and maintain behavioral mass.

Type
Brief Report
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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