Verbal Behavior: Extended Edition. Personal Epilogue II: No Black Scorpion. Quote 3

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Verbal Behavior: Extended Edition. Personal Epilogue II: No Black Scorpion. Quote 3

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The program of a radical behaviorism left no originating control inside the skin. (p. 459)

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