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Reminds me of the John Maynard Keynes quote, "Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians". Chomsky's ideas about of innate
by tikwidd 6y ago
Reminds me of the John Maynard Keynes quote, "Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians".
Chomsky's ideas about of innate linguistic systems in the mind seems to jibe well with Kant [1]. Chomsky has explicitly connected his work with the Cambridge Platonists/British Neo-platonists.
[1] https://askaphilosopher.org/2011/08/15/chomsky-and-plato-compared/ https://askaphilosopher.org/2011/08/15/chomsky-and-plato-com...