Why Does Armstrong Ultimately Reject Behaviorism

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Multiple Choice

Why does Armstrong ultimately reject behaviorism?

• A) It is necessarily incompatible with a physicalist account of the mind
• B) It cannot account for the phenomenon of thinking
• C) It posits a "ghost in the machine"
• D) It cannot account for our third-personal experience of behavior

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