> Hi Ian:
>> Some scholars cite Noam Chomsky's 1957 Syntactic Structures and his 1959
>> review of Skinner's Verbal Behavior, to which Skinner never replied, as the
>> death knell of behaviorism. An anarchist slam dunk on authoritarianism in
>> yet another neglected dimension of human affairs :-)
>
> Whether Chomsky's hypothesis of innate ideas is a blow for anarchism,
> however, is far from clear.
Particularly in light of the fact that Skinner considered himself an anarchist. I would suggest that Ian's appreciation of the situation is based on a "Pinky and the Brain" view of what's at stake.
-- bill
Consciousness is a social product. - B.F. Skinner