Behaviorist accounts of persons fail by omitting their transcendence-transcended principle

Evidence

In barring access to this realm, positivist philosophy sets up a self-sufficient world of its own, closed and well protected against the ingression of disturbing external factors. In this respect, it makes little difference whether the validating context is that of mathematics, of logical propositions, or of custom and usage. In one way or another, all possibly meaningful predicates are prejudged. The prejudging judgment might be as broad as the spoken English language, or the dictionary, or some other code or convention. Once accepted, it constitutes an empirical a priori which cannot be transcended. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 671 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Humanism is centered upon the agency of human individuality and subjective intuition, rather than on received ideas and approved authority. Texts have to be read as texts that were produced and live on in the historical realm in all sorts of what I have called worldly ways. But this by no means excludes power, since on the contrary what I have tried to show in my book have been the insinuations, the imbrications of power into even the most recondite of studies. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 49 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Post-structuralist philosophy rejected lived experience and active human subjects — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 88; Empiricism that rejects transitive concepts commits itself to false consciousness — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 457; Positivist philosophy imposes an empirical a priori that cannot be transcended — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 671 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Positivist philosophy imposes an empirical a priori that cannot be transcended #corroborates (0.75) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 671
• The actualist State-as-superior-entity theory reduces individuals to abstractions #corroborates (0.75)
• Humanism centers individual agency and subjective intuition against received authority #corroborates (0.75) — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 49
• Post-structuralist philosophy rejected lived experience and active human subjects #corroborates (0.72) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 88
• Empiricism that rejects transitive concepts commits itself to false consciousness #corroborates (0.72) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 457
• Orientalist scholarship reduces lived behavior to a few explanatory categories #corroborates (0.72) — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 590