Verbal Behavior was criticized in a different way by an old friend, I. A. Richards, whose interest in the field goes back, of course to the Meaning of Meaning . . . He once asked me to lecture to his freshman course in General Education . . . he said, “I now present the Devil,” and sat down. And I had not yet published Verbal Behavior, that outrageous invasion of Richards’ territory which might indeed have borne the subtitle, The Meaninglessness of Meaning. (pp.475-476)
