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 ===Behaviourism and {{br|The Ghost in the Machine}}===
-Now it wasn't always like that. Fifty years ago psychologists will waging a battle royale against hey positivist branch of their own discipline which insisted on on preceding by reference to public events only and ignoring private mental events. Can you imagine it: a psychology which ignores private mental events?
+Now it wasn't always like that. Fifty years ago psychologists were waging a battle royale against the positivist branch of their own discipline, which insisted on on proceeding by reference, exclusively, to public events and ignoring private mental events. Can you imagine it: a ''psychology'' which ignores private mental events?
 {{Quote|On the strength of this doctrine, the Behaviorists proceeded to purge psychology of all intangibles and unapproachables. The terms ‘consciousness’, ‘mind’, ‘imagination’ and ‘purpose’, together with a score of others were declared to be unscientific, treated as dirty words, and banned from the vocabulary. ... <Br>