Analytic PhilosophyNoam Chomsky |
What was Noam Chomsky’s argument against behaviorism? |
Chomsky (1928–) objected on the grounds that the speed with which a child learns a language and demonstrates an ability to form correct new sentences, even without hearing grammatically correct speech, implies that this language ability has not been learned. Behaviorism was fundamentally a theory that all human knowledge and behavior, including language use, was learned.