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I just love how he and Skinner had it out. Skinner wrote "Verbal Behavior", Chomsky responded, and Skinner's takeaway was "well, he didn't read this at all." And declared himself the winner. Meanwhile Chomsky was expecting a rebuttal, never got one, and declared himself the winner.