Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-picayune.mit.edu!athena.mit.edu!valis From: valis@athena.mit.edu (John O'Neil) Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy Subject: Re: Modelling reinforcement Message-ID: Date: 8 Dec 90 22:05:48 GMT References: <25667@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> <16562@cgl.ucsf.EDU> Sender: news@athena.mit.edu (News system) Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lines: 18 In-Reply-To: brianc@labmed.ucsf.edu's message of 7 Dec 90 17:48:54 GMT In article <16562@cgl.ucsf.EDU> brianc@labmed.ucsf.edu (Brian Colfer) writes: >I think that a systematic development of Skinner's ideas concerning >verbal behavior will result in an effective general model for semantic >processing. Please then explain the verbal behavior contained in "War and Peace" by Tolstoy. Make reference, if you wish, to Napoleon as the stimulus for a book written several decades later. John O'Neil Organlegger "From head to toe, you know where to go." Spleens a specialty.