Has Chomsky been blown out of the water? [pdf]
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Has Chomsky been blown out of the water? [pdf]
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Re: Has Chomsky been blown out of the water? [pdf]
#2If you want to prove a scientist wrong, present evidence to the contrary rather than personal innuendos and hypotheses / observations without proof.
Re: Has Chomsky been blown out of the water? [pdf]
#3 (I don’t hear good things about it from political scientists.)
Re: Has Chomsky been blown out of the water? [pdf]
#4Looks like some very important people ordered Chomsky's discreditation campaign, because that guy had enough balls to reveal something about them to general public in his book "How the World Works".
Re: Has Chomsky been blown out of the water? [pdf]
#5(I don’t hear good things about it from political scientists.) Immediately closes tab. I assume the rest of this is garbage innuendos, too?
Yup.
Re: Has Chomsky been blown out of the water? [pdf]
#6Looks like some very important people ordered Chomsky's discreditation campaign, because that guy had enough balls to reveal something about them to general public in his book "How the World Works".
Re: Has Chomsky been blown out of the water? [pdf]
#7Off topic, but as long as we have a Chomsky discussion - where would be a good place to start reading about his theories on the evolution of language?
More on topic, the dude is a giant, and the linked pdf not worth the electrons it's printed on.
Re: Has Chomsky been blown out of the water? [pdf]
#8Looks like some very important people ordered Chomsky's discreditation campaign, because that guy had enough balls to reveal something about them to general public in his book "How the World Works".
"How the world works" should be essential reading for all citizens of the world.
Re: Has Chomsky been blown out of the water? [pdf]
#9If you read a bit further (pages 2 and after) it's actually not all innuendo. In fact some of it is actually laudatory about his contributions. It's basically a very brief summary of Chomsky's ideas and the impact he had on linguistics as a profession. Namely using trees to model syntactical forms and his hypothesis on universal grammar. I don't know what it is about HN that makes people refuse to read past the first little thing they object to and then bloviate about it.
Re: Has Chomsky been blown out of the water? [pdf]
#10It's interesting to think that connectionist theories of language are literally shipping on Google Translate and people still argue about Chomsky. Many of the cognitive scientists were poking about with neural nets too - and they were getting into huge arguments with Chomsky and like folks since the 80's.