The actual precursors of speech are, as we have seen, the independent variables of which it is a function, but these are for the most part outside the organism and hence not very plausible replacements for ideas as inner causes. (p. 437)
Verbal Behavior: Extended Edition. Chapter 19: Thinking. Quote 19
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