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Saying Chomsky is wrong is like saying Newton is wrong. Or Freud is wrong. A good theory is valuable because it provides a way of making sense of the world. T
by cocktailpeanuts 10y ago
Saying Chomsky is wrong is like saying Newton is wrong. Or Freud is wrong.
A good theory is valuable because it provides a way of making sense of the world.
There are some theories where it CAN actually be proven wrong (like the old theory that the earth is flat, etc.), but it's stupid to say something is "wrong" when it cannot be proven wrong by definition, nor is it meant to be right or wrong.
No one understands how human beings work. Unless if you're a God.
- kafkaesq 10y agoBut the thing about Chomsky is that pretended to "know" how a certain function of the brain worked (and on a level much more complex than F = ma, and much more specific than anything offered by Freud), well ahead of any available evidence.