For practical purposes a special field has been set apart in terms of characteristics imparted to it by special controlling variables. It is in terms of these variables—of the contingencies arranged by the verbal community—that verbal behavior can be defined and analyzed. (p. 452)
Verbal Behavior: Extended Edition. Chapter 19: Thinking. Quote 35
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