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In Reply to: On Chomsky (and Skinner) posted by Barry Stoller on September 03, 1998 at 00:22:39:

May I replace 'black box' with Chomsky's L.A.D. to respond? Chomsky, I believe, is attributing something that is presently unseen by scientific inquiry to an inner phylogenic agencies before ontogenic investigations have been exhausted. Like I pointed out before, Chomsky was quick to point out that Skinner's theory** was not empirically conclusive while simultaneously admitting that 'present-day linguistics cannot provide a precise account of these integrative processes.'(4) Why would inconclusive evidence point to inner (unknown) agencies instead of outer (unknown) agencies except that, historically, people have done so ? The 'coincidental fallacy' is apt: people have feelings as they act and often attribute the acts to the feelings...Again, we need to
consider that even phylogenic development is subject to environmental variables, many
of which can---and already have---been altered...

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