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In article <363aaeb5.3461488@news.kuleuven.ac.be>,
  wim.vannieuwenhoven@student.kuleuven.ac.be (Wim Van Nieuwenhoven) wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Oct 1998 22:15:23 GMT, newhov@my-dejanews.com wrote:
>
> >  Language is a special type of social behavior designed to influence others'
> >behavior as well as our own nonverbal behavior.  See B. F. Skinner's "Verbal
> >Behavior."
>
> Skinner ... I feel like behaviorisme is a paradigm that cannot solve
> the problem of language. Sure it can come up with some answers but not
> the most important. And I think that's because they neglect the mind;
> I cannot think about language without getting into an introspective
> state: I seem to speak to myself when thinking; and on the other hand
> I have to think (most of the times) when I want to speak ...
>
> Or am I wrong about this?
>
> Wim.

  I don't know if you're wrong, but you may want to consider the possibility
that your "speaking to yourself" is language and most of your "thinking," at
least the verbal part, not the images, is language.  Therefore, "mind" is
either just a summary term for internal language.

--Newhov

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