He argued for the notions of operant conditioning to be extended to everyday life and argued that people's lives would become fuller and more satisfying if they were controlled in a properly behaviorist way.

他认为我们应当,将众多操作性条件作用的概念,应用于日常生活之中,他还认为，如果能够以行为主义者眼中,恰当的方式来控制人们的行为,那么人们便会拥有更加充实美满的生活。

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The philosopher Spinoza thought that ... if we could only recognize the fact, what he at least took to be the fact, that everything that happens in life is necessary, then we'd get a kind of emotional distance from it; it would no longer upset us.

哲学家Spinoza认为,如果我们能够认识到这个事实，至少他认为这是事实，即生活中的一切事情都是必然的，那么它对我们的情绪影响就比较少;,它不会再让我们感到痛苦。

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