I shall go skiing tomorrow is not, of course, literally a response to future behavior. No matter how we may interpret past events, as in the examples given above, it is clear that future events have no place in a causal analysis. (p. 144)
Verbal Behavior: Extended Edition. Chapter 5: The Tact. Quote 49
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