Chomsky takes down Hitchens

Luke Weiger lweiger at umich.edu
Sun Sep 30 14:00:04 PDT 2001


Actually, it's the behaviorist who will disregard intent or any other mental state (hence the term "behaviorist"), but nevermind...

-- Luke

----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Seay" <entheogens at yahoo.com> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2001 10:27 AM Subject: Re: Chomsky takes down Hitchens


> Chomsky is a scholar and is going to be careful
> about guessing at "intentions". Remember, this is the
> guy who DESTROYED behaviorism..., so he is not about
> to equate action with mental states such as
> "intentionality".
>
> If this were a boxing match, I would say that Chomsky
> scored a KNOCKOUT against Hitchens. Bravo Chomsky!
>
> Thomas
>
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