> Chomsky and.. colleagues had to overthrow the then-dominant paradigm of #behaviorism.. by Harvard psychologist #BFSkinner, where animal behavior was reduced to a simple set of associations between an action and its subsequent reward or punishment. The undoing of Skinner's grip on psychology is commonly marked by #Chomsky's 1959 critical review of #Skinner's book #VerbalBehavior, a book in which Skinner attempted to explain linguistic ability using behaviorist principles.
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The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do
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