Fundementally Chomsky has always argued that language must have some sort of core logic beyond Saussure's division between Signifier and Signified, but so far n

Fundementally Chomsky has always argued that language must have some sort of core logic beyond Saussure's division between Signifier and Signified, but so far nobody has been able to prove it. What might be most disturbing to him is that LLMs, which operate purely on mass associations, might be closer to human cognition than a notion of cognitive logic. What if the associations are more primary, and the logic comes later? Just as someone else commented, animals work mostly in cycles, patterns, they don't have logic but the cycles of life are burned into them; there could be some magic key that explains why humans possess logic, but it would not be hidden in biology--more likely, since language is by nature a social phenomenon, it would be an aspect of culture.