“…385-95). Although productive of relatively little research, the relation of practical necessity to communication has been the subject of extensive theoretical and methodological discussion (see especially : Cushman, 1977;Cushman & Pearce, 1977a, 1977bAdler, 1978;Smith, 1980Smith, , 1983Shimanoff, 1980;Sanders & Cushman, 1984). For present purposes, suffice it to say that the identification of a form of necessity in human action secures at least the possibility of developing a fully scientific approach within the naturalistic style.…”