Although Ryle's objectives were similar to those of Wittgenstein, his results often seemed more behaviouristic. |
The type of functioning multilingualism in India for instance, is difficult to define and a behaviouristic model of 'code switching' would hardly help in comprehending it. |
This essentially behaviouristic account is exactly what the intuition behind the argument is meant to overthrow. |
Rather, as he pointed out in his reply to Midgley, he gives the word an explicitly behaviouristic definition. |
And in a famously devastating critique published in 1957, the American linguist Noam Chomsky demonstrated the hopelessness of Skinner's efforts to provide a behaviouristic account of human language learning and use. |
Over the past twenty years we have evolved from a highly empirical, behaviouristic and cognitivistic bias to a balance between empirism and social constructivism. |