• canihasaccount@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Chomsky is considered one of the founders of cognitive science. He was the only person who was able to argue away Skinner’s conceptualization of language. Were it not for him, behaviorism may still have been dominant.

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        5 months ago

        I urge anyone downvoting these comments to refute Steve. Downvoting without honest criticism is just petty

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          5 months ago

          Steve sounds like your typical Redditor posting about a famous person who has made monumental strides in academia. I’m guessing Steve also has ready-to-paste arguments for anyone who says that Stephen Hawking was intelligent.