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| | Behaviorism [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
 | | To misconstrue talk of people "as knowing, believing, or guessing something, as hoping, dreading, intending or shirking something, as designing this or being amused at that" (Ryle 1949: 15) on the model of scientific hypotheses about inner mechanisms misconstrues the "logical grammar" (Wittgenstein) of such talk, or makes a "category-mistake" (Ryle). |
 | | Competing theories include, notably, Lexical Function Grammar (Bresnan), Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (Sag, Pollard), Functionalism (see Newmeyer), Categorial Grammar (Steedman), and Stratificational Grammar (Lamb).) |
 | | Behaviorism's disregard for consciousness struck many from the first, and continues to strike many today, as contrary to plain self-experience and plain common-sense; not to mention all that makes life precious and meaningful. |
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