Re: Language versus concept

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From: Peter T. Daniels
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 11:52

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On Sep 5, 7:23 am, "Glen M. Sizemore" <gmsizemo...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> "Brian M. Scott" <b.sc...@csuohio.edu> wrote in messagenews:7onlzv12ejod$.21q9et8hy7e5$.dlg@40tude.net...
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> > On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 20:27:54 -0700, "Peter T. Daniels"
> > <gramma...@verizon.net> wrote in
> > <news:1188962874.711693.93360@r29g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>
> > in sci.cognitive,sci.lang,bionet.neuroscience:
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> >> On Sep 4, 5:40 pm, "Brian M. Scott" <b.sc...@csuohio.edu> wrote:
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> >>> The article is at
> >>> <http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&ar...>
> >>> in the form of 17 scanned pages; there's also a link by
> >>> which one can download it as a 2.9M .pdf.
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> >>> 'On Chomsky's review of Skinner's _Verbal Behavior_'
> >>> Reviewed by Kenneth MacCorquodale
> >>> J Exp Anal Behav. 1970 January; 13(1): 83-99.
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> >> Thank you. Did it look worth reading?
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> > I just skimmed the first few pages, so take anything I say
> > with a grain of salt, but it seemed to me that one would
> > have to be familiar with VB to get much out of the review: a
> > good chunk of MacC's argument appears to be that Chomsky
> > either didn't understand or misrepresented what Skinner was
> > actually saying.  I've not read VB (and know damn-all about
> > behaviorism anyway), so I'm not part of the intended
> > audience.
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> But have you ever told students that Chomsky demolished Skinner's position
> etc.? The intended audience was anyone interested, well, verbal behavior -
> what many people would call "language acquisition" and "language" etc. It
> didn't work out that way of course, and now we have cognitive "science."

Why would a professor of mathematics tell "students" _anything_ about
these matters?

You seem to be unaware of psycholinguistics, which long predates and
vastly outperforms "cognitive science."

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