The view of the " behaviourists" is that nothing can be known except by external observation.

“行为主义者” 的观点是，除了通过外部观察， 什么都无法知道。

Progress has not been easy or quick; as the behaviourists warned, both sorts of evidence can be misleading.

进展并不容易或很快；正如行为主义者警告的那样，这两种证据都可能具有误导性。

Behaviourists had no trouble with fear, seeing it as a conditioned reflex that they knew full well how to create.

行为主义者并不担心恐惧，他们认为恐惧是一种条件反射，他们非常清楚如何创造恐惧。

It has seemed to the behaviourists that similar methods can be applied to human behaviour, without assuming anything not open to external observation.

在行为主义者看来， 类似的方法似乎可以应用于人类行为， 而无需假设任何不对外部观察开放的东西。

I do not myself believe that the analysis of knowledge can be effected entirely by means of purely external observation, such as behaviourists employ.

我本人不相信知识的分析可以完全通过纯粹的外部观察来实现， 就像行为主义者所使用的那样。

Animal behaviourists in the UK have reported a surge in requests to help dogs suffering from fear-aggression after their lives have been turned upside down.

英国的动物行为学家报告说，在狗的生活发生天翻地覆的情况下，帮助遭受恐惧攻击的狗的请求激增。

The classic research by BF Skinner, the inventor of the Skinner box, the original behaviourist; he had pigeons in a box and they could peck levers and they would get pellets.

BF Skinner的经典研究， 斯金纳盒的发明者， 最初的行为主义者；他把鸽子放在一个盒子里， 它们可以啄食杠杆， 然后它们会得到颗粒。

It is sometimes suggested, by those who favour behaviourist views, that recognition consists in behaving in the same way when a stimulus is repeated as we behaved on the first occasion when it occurred.

那些赞成行为主义观点的人有时会提出， 识别在于当刺激重复出现时， 我们的行为方式与我们第一次出现时的行为方式相同。

True, we talk a great deal, and imagine that in so doing we are showing that we can think; but behaviourists say that the talk they have to listen to can be explained without supposing that people think.

的确，我们谈了很多，并且想象我们这样做是在表明我们可以思考；但是行为主义者说，他们不得不听的谈话可以在不假设人们思考的情况下得到解释。