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And the excerpt you're going to read
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is from his "Review of Verbal Behavior."
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And this is one of the most influential intellectual documents
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ever written in psychology
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because it took the entire discipline of behaviorism
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and, more than everything else, more than any other event,
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could be said to have destroyed it or ended it
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as a dominant intellectual endeavor.
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And Chomsky's argument is complicated and interesting,
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but the main sort of argument he had to make is goes like this.
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When it comes to humans,
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the notions of reward and punishment and so on