All of the Following Were Goals of the British Empiricists

question 55

Multiple Choice

All of the following were goals of the British empiricists and the French sensationalists except:

• A)to explain the mind as Newton had explained the physical world
• B)to show that metaphysical speculation could not be abandoned when attempting to explain human behavior
• C)to minimize or eliminate metaphysical speculation while explaining human psychology
• D)to explain mental events in mechanistic terms

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