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O.K This is hot.
What did the Skinnerian inference,"Here is what you can do, Son;" mean?
Maybe an artist can infer a facial expression, of the individual, being
talked to.  But than again, others are usually, "Brain Dead," or just
without a clue. But, I guess it's worth the probe.
Larry Cardin
newhov@my-dejanews.com wrote in message <70b4ts$4fm$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>...
>In article <36277e29.18457365@news.kuleuven.ac.be>,
>  wim.vannieuwenhoven@student.kuleuven.ac.be (Wim Van Nieuwenhoven) wrote:
>> Thanks for all the reactions I got on my question:
>>
>> "What is language, its purpose, its origin?"
>
>  Language is a special type of social behavior designed to influence
others'
>behavior as well as our own nonverbal behavior.  See B. F. Skinner's
"Verbal
>Behavior."
>
>> And than for the side-tracks:
>>
>> >"Is mathematics a language?"
>
>     Yes. (Because it affects the behavior of others.)
>
>> I think the main thing is here: how broad does one wants to (dares
>> to?) define language? Will he allow artificial languages? Animal
>> languages? ...
>
>     Yes.
>
>> >"Is intuition a language?"
>
>     Yes.
>
>
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