Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- I. Explanation -- Causality -- Meaning -- Response -- Stimulus and Response -- Conditioning -- Meaning and Response -- Rhetoric and Redundancy -- Logic as Behavior -- Mind -- Intention -- Explanatory Regress -- Justification and Validation -- Normative Regress -- Categorization and Regress -- Conclusion -- II. The Nonverbal -- The Sign -- Semiotic Behavior -- Three Quasi Digressions -- Semiotic Response Transfer: Nonverbal and Verbal -- From Nonverbal to Verbal -- Sign Production -- Categories of Nonverbal Signs -- Regulatory and Performatory Semiosis -- Some Semiotic Terms -- Interpretation -- Explanation and the Nonverbal -- Mythology and Science -- Science, the Model for "Knowing," -- Conclusion -- III. Culture and Social Institutions -- The Culture of Homo Scientificus -- The Brain's Randomness -- The Channeling of Response -- Policing -- Sacrifice -- Ultimate Verbal Redundancies -- "Culture" Defined -- Social Institutions: 1. Teaching-Learning Institutions -- Institutions as Explanations -- Social Institutions: 2. Value Institutions -- Social Institutions: 3. Economic -- Social Institutions: 4. Governmental -- Politics -- Social Institutions: 5. Ideological -- Cultural Levels -- Conclusion -- IV. The Individual -- Persona -- Interests -- Eros and Redemption -- Individual Randomness -- Randomness, Interests, and Government -- Emergent Innovation: Cultural Transcendence -- Concluding Moral -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.