He read historical documents written by past explorers, prisoners of war,pilots, and ship wreck survivors.

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But it's also interesting that he says he trusted that traditional living voice more than he trusted written documents.

同样有意思的是，他说自己更相信,口述传统而不是文献。

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So that's how these written documents came about.

所以这些文献就是这样来的。

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And this is one of the most influential intellectual documents ever written in psychology because it took the entire discipline of behaviorism and, more than everything else, more than any other event, could be said to have destroyed it or ended it as a dominant intellectual endeavor.

这是心理学论文之中,最有影响力最出色的文献之一,因为相较于其他批判,这篇文章作为一种完全理性的尝试，可以说完全摧毁,或是终结了行为主义学派。

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So he knows that there's written documents.

所以他知道文献的存在。

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People thought that these documents eventually were written by the people whose names that they possess.

人们认为这些文献是由,里面提到的人所写。

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