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Very accurate. Honestly, reading Chomsky in a lot of places he says things like there's no way a baby could learn this, it must be hard coded in their brain! Th
by lnanek2 11y ago
Very accurate. Honestly, reading Chomsky in a lot of places he says things like there's no way a baby could learn this, it must be hard coded in their brain! Then in baby studies done later we actually find babies do have a natural understanding of things like probability and can do the things he says are impossible.
There are many other flaws in his work. I tend to think of him as just an old man who wrote his stuff before we knew as much as we do about genetics, so was unfortunately really off base. It's nice that people who don't know the science were excited by him, I guess.
- discreteinfinit 11y agoCould you link some of those 'baby studies' you are referring to ?
- panglott 11y agoI suspect this relates to the debate over the 'poverty of the stimulus' argument. It's a pretty fundamental premise of Chomskyan innatist arguments that seems to me totally wrong. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_of_the_stimulus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_of_the_stimulus