And of course, just because someone might say "acted on impulse" does
not mean that it is correct or or logical. People say and mean all
sorts of incorrect or illogical phrases. And you're right, of course,
that an impulse is not an activity; that defies the meaning that you
can have with some words, that they stop short of being something else
and that is their value in the language.
I also have a problem with Moose's mixing of metaphors: "quarks ...
colours ... spin etc ..."
But then I haven't a clue what a quark might be.
Chris
On 17 May 2008, at 00:16, Andrew Fildes wrote:
>
> Actually the usual objection (to the behaviourists) is the opposite -
> that we have many impulses on which we do not act. I'm no particular
> fan of that school but I also dislike the objection in that I can
> understand the impulse as an activity in and of itself.
> Anywho, the demotic expression 'act on impulse' and its companion
> 'act with deliberation' are merely definitions of types of action -
> the motivations for those actions are activities within themselves.
> (And for a behaviourist, indistinguishable from the action).
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