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From: ellis@spar.UUCP (Michael Ellis)
Newsgroups: net.philosophy
Subject: Re: Science & Philosophy vs Rosenism (Skinnerist Moral Philosophy)
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Date: Fri, 25-Oct-85 13:21:22 EDT
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Reply-To: ellis@spar.UUCP (Michael Ellis)
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>Hmmm, this is an intriguing proposition.  The internal state, having gotten
>to be the way it is (with indoctrination and conditioning leading that
>internal state into various forms)..

    But does past history, in fact, determine `present state'? 

    If a great deal of recent scientific research and theory in biology,
    chemistry, and physics is true, your pet behaviorist theories
    must be tossed into the Humean flames!

    Why do you suppose Strict Behaviorism is obsolete?

    SMASH SKINNERISM!!

-michael