# Discourse dysfunction

**URL:** <http://discourse.iapct.org/t/discourse-dysfunction/15960>\
**Category:** Troubled discourse\
**Created:** [September 28, 2022, 10:00pm UTC](http://discourse.iapct.org/t/discourse-dysfunction/15960 "2022-09-28T22:00:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![bnhpct](http://discourse.iapct.org/user_avatar/discourse.iapct.org/bnhpct/32/34_2.png) [@bnhpct](http://discourse.iapct.org/u/bnhpct)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2023, 9:31pm UTC](http://discourse.iapct.org/t/discourse-dysfunction/15960/85 "2023-01-10T21:31:34Z")

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> [@Revise Description of Phenomena Category](http://discourse.iapct.org/t/revise-description-of-phenomena-category/16000/6):
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> > [@Revise Description of Phenomena Category](http://discourse.iapct.org/t/revise-description-of-phenomena-category/16000/6):
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> > taken out of context as you have done it is possible to read the first sentence that way. But read together with the immediately following sentence that interpretation is not possible:
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> > > [@Revise Description of Phenomena Category](http://discourse.iapct.org/t/revise-description-of-phenomena-category/16000/6):
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> > > This category is for discussion of the observable phenomena of behavior. PCT explains purposeful behavior as control: acting to keep variable aspects of the environment in states which the subject organism prefers.
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> Actually, my interpretation is even more possible in this case because you don’t say that behavior **is** control, you say PCT **explains** behavior as control. Big difference.

Then that would have been an appropriate critique to have made of the two sentences together. The point of this post is the piecemeal putdown of one sentence at a time, and too often only responding to the bits that you can put down. This has the appearance, as I said, of controlling “making a mistake about PCT” with high gain. High gain results in quick response to slight error, leaving not enough time for higher cognitive functions to consider context, etc.

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