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As we all know human behavior can be described and classified in a variety of ways. We speak about activities, actions, achievements, habitual and automated behavior, reflexes, and so on. It is plausible to think that our explanations of behavior are strongly linked with our ways of describing behavior. We shall in fact argue later that one’s general views concerning the nature of man and the sources of man’s activity strongly affect one’s way of conceptualizing and explaining behavior.
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© 1977 D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland
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Tuomela, R. (1977). Human Action. In: Human Action and Its Explanation. Synthese Library, vol 116. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1242-3_2
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