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> One thing grammar does not do is constrain grammatically-correct language to produce only the truth. In all fairness, this belongs only to context-free gramm
by masswerk 4y ago
> One thing grammar does not do is constrain grammatically-correct language to produce only the truth.
In all fairness, this belongs only to context-free grammars. Also, I'm somewhat concerned that we may see a resurgence of behaviorism promoted along the lines. (It may be worth remembering what kind of regime this had been.)
- mannykannot 4y agoThe statement you quote is true of all natural human languages, which is what matters here (if you do not agree, you should be able to refute it on purely grammatical grounds!) As for behaviorism, it can stand or fall on its own merits (or lack of them), just as should the alternatives.