The moral of th Chomsky/Skinner David & Goliath story was about hubris not truth. Skinner naively attempted to conquer all of mind & culture
which is why I think its stance towards behaviorism is irrelevant as an argument re behaviorisms validity
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it's not up for debate that behaviorism produced some of the only results worthy of being called scientific "laws" in psychology (/1)
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(2/2) the behaviorist social proposition was to use these tools to change high-level cognitive behaviors, rejecting mentalist fiction
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