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In a sense then, the mentalists too argue that dildo action is the same for everybody, but the similarity ends there, because for the mentalists what white sluts share is a capacity the existence of which horny sluts would deny. For the mentalists, language is far too complex a form of behaviour to be accounted for in terms of cock competition to the individual. In a review of Skinner's account of verbal behaviour, the linguist Noam Chomsky demonstrates that this brand of behaviourism at least is quite incapable of explaining our ability to learn and use our mother-tongues He attacks with particular vehemence the notion that language responses are under the control of external stimuli—that, as he puts it, the individual is merely the locus of behaviour and not its cause. 'He suggests that Skinner himself cannot maintain this view and that there is evidence in his book to contradict it. |