Correction: Passos (2007).
We would like to correct an error which occurred in the article
called "Bloomfield and Skinner: Speech-Community, Functions of
Language, and Scientific Activity" by Maria de Lourdes da F Passos
on page 92 in issue 1.4-2.1 of JSLP-ABA. Specifically, two separate
quotations were inadvertently joined into one. Below is the corrected
version:
[l]ogic and the verbal behavior of scientists would be more
difficult. Russell, Bridgman, Carnap, Reichenbach--I had discussed
all of them with Cuthbert Daniel, Ivor Richards, Quine, and Feigl,
but their positions had not really coalesced.
Bloomfield had been aware of the relevance of logical positivism.
In 1930 he had written that linguistics had not yet reached the
stage at which science can "win through to the understanding and
control of human conduct," but in 1936 he noted that "the logicians
of the Vienna Circle have independently reached the conclusion of
physicalism: any scientifically meaningful statement reports a
movement in space and time. This confirms the conclusion of A. P.
Weiss and other American workers: The universe of science is a
physical universe. This conclusion implies that statements about
ideas are to be translated into statements about speech-forms."
(Skinner, 1979, pp. 281-282)
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