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What’s really interesting is that entire Chomskian syntax worldview is fairly pseudo-scientific in nature. Most of these papers are about taking an essentially
by ribit 4y ago
What’s really interesting is that entire Chomskian syntax worldview is fairly pseudo-scientific in nature. Most of these papers are about taking an essentially Turing-complete computation system and tweaking it until it can solve a specific riddle. Rinse and repeat. Most of the arguments (like the poverty of stimulus) are purely authoritarian as well.