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In Reply to: Is this your best shot, Mad Dog? posted by Hank on February 09, 19100 at 15:50:32:

: So, Mad Dog, after two posts in which I showed that the 43 year old debate between debate Skinner and Chomsky is long over and CHOMSKY WON, you give me this? I'm disappointed in you, Mad Dog. Furthermore, the second of my responses was pretty much conciliatory, but you nevertheless took one of my topic sentences out, call it a 'slithering retreat', then disengenuously suggested that I suggested Chomsky's Nazi allusion was a coincidence.

Piper: Did Chomsky win? Skinner never replied and Chomsky was pretty inaccurate in his representation of Skinner's views. That sounds like a pretty dubious victory to me.

I've seen papers that purport to show how laNGUAGE IS ACQUIRED VIA sKINNERIAN METHODS.

Follow Ups:

• Behaviorism doesn't have a non-trivial leg to stand on. Hank February 10 19100 (0)
• My Last Bit on This Hank February 10 19100 (9)
  • don't hoist the white flag so soon Hank... Piper February 11 19100 (2)
    • White Flag? Hank February 11 19100 (1)
      • thoughts Piper February 14 19100 (0)
  • Thank God (or is that Human Nature?) Barry Stoller February 11 19100 (5)
    • Thank God (or is that Human Nature?) Hank February 11 19100 (4)
      • Concluding thoughts Barry Stoller February 11 19100 (3)
        • More concluding thoughts Hank February 14 19100 (0)
        • Should we shape others behavior, or should we leave them alone? Hank February 14 19100 (0)
        • Behaviorists by definition are hostile to mental states and innateness. Hank February 14 19100 (0)