It is often said that a child’s cognitive skills are honed from ages three to four. For me growing up as I child, I had so many questions, question about nature, psychology, physics and biology. Questions would range from, why am I always hungry to why do I cry, why do I feel pain when I fall from sea-saws, what makes me laugh. Although, at that time, I probably did not understand the answers given to my doubts, I still somewhat understood the message my mother was trying to get across to me. She explained why I was experiencing those emotions, and I am forever grateful for her. Getting into high school, I was taught that as human beings, most of our actions are influenced by social, psychological and physical behavior. I often tell my friends that all human beings, who haven’t gone through a psychological or sociological trauma, would think alike. Through social studies (a subject taught in Nigerian high schools), I learned that we humans learn to understand how others are feeling through their physical actions. In college with the aid of professor Schamus, I have learned that and we learn that those actions are used in order to express our mental states and thoughts. Thus me asking my mother as a child, why I do I squint my eyes, open my mouth and show my 20 teeth, hold my chest after you make faces, what does this mean. My mother at that time, informed me that what I was doing is called laughing, and you laugh when you are happy. Now this amount of information can be further strengthened and deeply explored with regard to logical behaviorism, which maintains that any meaningful psychological statement, that is, a statement purportedly describing a mental phenomenon, can be translated, without loss of content, into a statement solely about behavioral and physical phenomena (Edwards). This belief is supported by Carl Hempel, a German writer and philosopher, who states that “...we see clearly that the meaning of psychological proposition consists merely in the function of abbreviating the description of certain modes of physical response characteristic of the bodies of man and the animals” (91). Now, although behaviorism does help to explain the theoretical relationship between mental phenomenas and their respective behavioral descriptions (physical descriptions), and there is also some credibility in the connection between mental states and physical behavior, it is rather implausible to assume that this explanation is the definitive answer as to what a mental phenomenon is and its relationship with its respective physical description. Thus throughout this paper I will give an overview of Hempel’s explanation for logical behaviorism and with the help of Wittgenstein, outline its strengths, weaknesses and finally my stand on the theory. Before I do so, let me give you an overview of who Carl Hempel is. Carl Hempel is a major figure in a 20th-century philosophy. One of his prominent areas of study focused on this concept of logical behaviorism, which is what this paper is about. In simple terms, this theory holds that being in a mental situation such as being happy, as I had mentioned earlier in this paper, is the same as being in the physical state of laughing. Therefore, it is the contention that, because we cannot know what others are thinking or feeling without observing their outward behavior, there is nothing else to mental states than their respective physical reaction. Thus Hempel believes that in humans, any action or statement made by the prefrontal cortex or thinking faculty of the brain may be translated into a statement about outward observable actions. For example, if after studying for the MCAT and I get a perfect score due to my hard work, I tell myself Carmen-Rose this is exciting and definitely calls f