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is Noam Chomsky a quack?
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Date: June 29th, 2012 8:28 PM Author: Lascivious Ruddy Travel Guidebook Ticket Booth As it turned out, not a single one of Chomsky's earth-shattering discoveries has proved remotely on a par with "the discovery of waves, particles, genes and so on" in the physical sciences. Even the basic notion of "deep structure" was discarded long ago and is nowadays not mentioned. The Empty Category Principle (ECP), X-bar theory, binding theory and so on and so forth - virtually the entire corpus of Chomskyan technical concepts and terms - got thrown overboard years ago. "Minimalism" meant exploring Chomsky's personal "intuition" that language is "perfect", which in turn meant calling into question just about everything:
"My own view is that almost everything is subject to question, especially if you look at it from a minimalist perspective; about everything you look at, the question is: why is it there? So, if you had asked me 10 years ago, I would have said government is a unifying concept, X-bar theory is a unifying concept, the head parameter is an obvious parameter, ECP, etc, but now none of these looks obvious. X-bar theory, I think, is probably wrong, government maybe does not exist."[40]
In an attempt to salvage his credibility, Chomsky argues that failure and self-repudiation on this scale is normal in science. When Einstein intervened, Newton's more limited conceptions were overthrown. But the difference - as Chomsky well knows - is that physics underwent a genuine scientific revolution, whereas linguistics did not. There is no evidence that Galileo kept changing his mind on fundamentals during his own lifetime, as Chomsky has done. The fact that no Chomskyan claim seems to survive more than a few years suggests that something is wrong. |
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Date: August 29th, 2012 7:00 AM Author: chartreuse appetizing school cite - http://www.conservapedia.com/Noam_Chomsky (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1982910&forum_id=2#21449137) |
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Date: February 22nd, 2014 4:38 AM Author: Hideous base mad cow disease http://marxistupdate.blogspot.com/2011/02/real-noam-chomsky.html (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1982910&forum_id=2#25064624) |
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Date: January 3rd, 2025 11:29 PM Author: heady maize filthpig kitty cat ljl @ newton's conceptions being limited. nobody outside of pop $ci fraud GPS satellites uses relativity in any serious capacity for the benefit of mankind. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1982910&forum_id=2#48516638) |
Date: June 29th, 2012 8:30 PM Author: gold racy stage weed whacker Chomsky is a very smart man who tried to make progress in the social sciences and failed. He can only be blamed for barking up the wrong tree. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1982910&forum_id=2#20986564) |
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Date: June 29th, 2012 8:39 PM Author: arrogant pit legal warrant yeah (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1982910&forum_id=2#20986597) |
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Date: August 29th, 2012 6:59 AM Author: Sienna Impressive Mother Menage (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1982910&forum_id=2#21449136) |
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Date: February 17th, 2013 12:48 AM Author: deep gunner (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1982910&forum_id=2#22653664) |
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Date: February 17th, 2013 12:52 AM Author: hairraiser bossy stead He's a legit linguist albeit probably wrong
his stuff on economics is pure pop-schlock |
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Date: February 17th, 2013 12:54 AM Author: deep gunner he is an overrated nincompoop he will be forgotten almost immediately after he dies |
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Date: February 17th, 2013 1:01 AM Author: House-broken razzle-dazzle resort Very wrong (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1982910&forum_id=2#22653720) |
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Date: February 17th, 2013 1:44 AM Author: burgundy adventurous address what is his legacy? all his work in his field is in doubt (see OP/link)?
what is he going to hang his hat on? his Stalinist apologetics? |
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Date: February 17th, 2013 10:55 AM Author: Maniacal public bath idiot http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chomsky_hierarchy (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1982910&forum_id=2#22654624) |
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Date: September 10th, 2023 3:40 PM Author: passionate rough-skinned incel MIT (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1982910&forum_id=2#46779693) |
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Date: February 17th, 2013 1:38 AM Author: snowy library kitty he is a jew. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1982910&forum_id=2#22653906) |
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Date: February 17th, 2013 1:40 AM Author: burgundy adventurous address this (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1982910&forum_id=2#22653920) |
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Date: March 16th, 2014 4:23 AM Author: glittery macaca market (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1982910&forum_id=2#25198338) |
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Date: February 17th, 2013 1:38 AM Author: Drunken Dun Church Building Dopamine can he dance (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1982910&forum_id=2#22653912) |
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Date: February 17th, 2013 2:05 AM Author: Cocky Doctorate Partner Academic history will not treat him kindly. When he's gone there will be plenty of young academics tearing his linquistics work apart when they don't have to worry about Chomsky trying to kill their careers. He's a small man and will be remembered as such. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1982910&forum_id=2#22653999) |
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Date: February 17th, 2013 2:05 AM Author: Hideous base mad cow disease cr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1982910&forum_id=2#22654004) |
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Date: June 23rd, 2023 4:58 PM Author: Amethyst wonderful water buffalo rigpig (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1982910&forum_id=2#46464519) |
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Date: September 10th, 2023 3:39 PM Author: passionate rough-skinned incel https://www.inventorofemail.com/noam-chomsky-on-invention-of-email-va-shiva-ayyadurai.asp#Statement-1 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1982910&forum_id=2#46779689) |
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Date: January 3rd, 2025 11:44 PM Author: passionate rough-skinned incel Godfather of linguistics (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1982910&forum_id=2#48516657) |