When Whitehead challenged behaviorist B. F. Skinner to address the sentence, "No black scorpion is falling upon this table," he was making the point of:
A) The predictability of linguistics
B) The dysfunction present in sentence structure
C) The spontaneity of human language that theoretical systems fail to account for
D) The inability of behaviorism to help people suffering from speech disorders

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Whitehead's challenge to Skinner highlighted the complexity and spontaneity of human language, demonstrating that behaviorist theories, which focus on observable behaviors and their conditioning, struggle to fully account for the nuances and unpredictability of language use.

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