On Sat, 16 Sep 2000 23:25:20 -0400 Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu>
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> P.S. Between Skinner and Chomsky, there stands Wittgenstein:
Actually, Skinner seems to have been very much influenced by Wittgenstein. Commentators have note the similarities between the examples that Skinner gave of the learning of language in his book *Verbal Behavior* and the ones that Wittgenstein provided in his *Philosophical Investigations*. It seems rather likely that Skinner drew directly upon Wittgenstein's book. Skinner was also BTW a great admirer of Gilbert Ryle, whose general viewpoint was rather similar to that of the later Wittgenstein.
Jim Farmelant
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> ***** "An attitude towards a soul"
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> - Camilla Kronqvist
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> With the remark "My attitude towards him is an attitude towards a
> soul. I am not of the opinion that he has a soul." (PI p. 178),
> Wittgenstein is responding to a specific philosophical discussion
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> the way it presents our relationship with other human beings. The
> tradition he is mainly turning against is the Cartesian tradition
> which regards human beings as consisting of two parts, a material
> body and an immaterial mind or soul. Of these two, the mind is seen
> as the real person while the body is seen as a mere automaton, that
> does not grant that the other bodies I see around me also have souls
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> and thereby are persons....
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> <http://www.abo.fi/~ckronqvi/soul.htm> *****
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