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From: steiny@scc.UUCP (Don Steiny)
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Subject: Re: Linguistic Mind-Model
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Date: Wed, 30-Jan-85 12:34:58 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 30 12:34:58 1985
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> The human brain-mind is a stimulus-response system.
> The channels of sensory and motor memory begin as tabula rasa - a clean slate.
> 
	Hmm, have you read "On Verbal Behavior" by B.F. Skinner?

	Besides the excellent paper Noam Chomsky wrote more 
than 20 years ago arguing against this position, an article
in this month's (Jan. 1985)  Scientific American drives yet
another nail into the coffin of behavorist models of
language.
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