But the essence of the baby is not in the bathwater.
With their all-out attack on positivism and the "dehumanizing, counterrevolutionary" nature of its concepts, they threw out the baby with the bathwater.
Now we seem to be threatening to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
But even if he wins that challenge, another baby has just been tossed out with the bathwater.
It would, in any case, have been a serious mistake to throw out the modern contrastive analysis baby with the old contrastive analysis bathwater.
The behavioral bathwater is gone but the baby has thrived and is ready to rejoin the company of linguists to help them with their work.
To me this seems like throwing out the baby and keeping the bathwater which contains only what is abstracted from the baby.
However, it is possible to throw out the baby with the bathwater.
