If someone who is sitting quite still is asked What are you doing?, he may reply Nothing, I’m just thinking. In the terminology of the layman (and of many specialists) thinking is often simply opposed to doing. (p. 434)
Verbal Behavior: Extended Edition. Chapter 19: Thinking. Quote 7
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