Re: Language versus concept

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From: Brian M. Scott
Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2007 18:16

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On Sat, 8 Sep 2007 08:45:07 -0400, "Glen M. Sizemore"
<gmsizemore2@yahoo.com> wrote in
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> "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net> wrote in message 
> news:1189191791.027037.214690@d55g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...

[...]

> The Wikipedia entry under Verbal Behavior" is not perfect,
> but you should at least give it a look.

It certainly offers little incentive to read VB, at least if
one is interested in language.  Fairly or not, it makes VB
sound like an exercise in classification (complete with its
own elaborate pseudo-technical vocabulary) combined with
some handwaving to suggest how the classificatory structure
might conceivably have some explanatory power, if only the
details could be sorted.

Never mind that this looks rather like throwing in the towel
before the bell rings for the first round:

   For Skinner, the proper object of study is behavior 
   itself, analysed without reference to hypothetical 
   (mental) structures, but rather with reference to the 
   functional relationships of the behavior in the 
   environment in which it occurs.

[...]

Brian

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From: "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu>
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