QUOTE : In psychology, for instance, consider how much time learned people have wasted debating such questions as “Does the patient do this because he is in Oedipal rebellion or because he is still following early conditioning?” In E-Prime, this question becomes “Does the Freudian model help us to understand this patient’s behavior more than, as much as, or less than the Pavlovian model?” One can still have lively debate, but the debate will remain scientific and not drift off, unaware, into medieval theology or demonology.