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Ever since the appearance of Chomsky’s famous review (1959) of Skinner’s Verbal Behavior (1957), linguists have conducted an effective and active campaign against the empirical or conceptual adequacy of any learning theory whose basic concepts are those of stimulus and response, and whose basic processes are stimulus conditioning and stimulus sampling.
Reprinted from Journal of Mathematical Psychology 6 (1969), 327–355.
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After this was written Gordon Bower brought to my attention the article by Millenson (1967) that develops this point informally.
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Suppes, P. (1969). Stimulus-Response Theory of Finite Automata. In: Studies in the Methodology and Foundations of Science. Synthese Library, vol 22. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3173-7_23
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