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That was Chomsky's whole thing, find a pattern and make a list of all the ways it can occur How does that describe generative grammar? There are an infinite nu
by gruseom 17y ago
That was Chomsky's whole thing, find a pattern and make a list of all the ways it can occur
How does that describe generative grammar? There are an infinite number of ways that can occur.
- sjf 17y agoThere is a finite number of rules, which produce an infinite number of sentences. I suppose is what the parent meant.
- Alex3917 17y agoCorrect. It's like there are an infinite number of insights, but only a set number of ways that something can be insightful. But if we make a list of ways that something can be insightful, then we can still make a list of insights generated in each specific way. And from this list we can probably create a new set of patterns. Perhaps the sum of all human knowledge is infinite and self-similar.