Contingencies of Reinforcement. Chapter 8: Behaviorism at fifty. Quote 14

“Descartes could not begin, as he thought he could, by saying, “Cogito ergo sum.” He had to begin as a baby—a baby whose subsequent verbal environment eventually generated in him (though not in millions of his contemporaries) certain responses of which “cogito” was an example.” (p. 243)

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