Sure, and Ptolemy was a bona fide astronomical genius who just so happened to believe in geocentrism. Chomsky is effectively a linguistic geocentrist ...
Yeah I also don't know how I changed one word and drew this totally erroneous conclusion. You know what never mind. You quoted Quora. That, like Reddi...
Ah, must be because of their hunting faculty. The Universal Hunting (UH) module. If you question it, you're being spooky. Why ? Because of faculty. Ah...
I find this to be such a dodge. Here, substitute anything that we can do for 'language' and you can see why: "A lot of people misunderstand what Unive...
This is both true and not true. True in the sense that UG was meant to mean the "biological capacity for language", but not true in that what was/is u...
For a fun debate about universals, along with all the ways in which they are characterized, Evens and Levinson's essay, on the Myth of Language Univer...
Then I would suggest that you do not know what Chomsky means. UG is not just the mere idea that there is a genetic component to language. It specifies...
Piketty is an excellent scholar, maybe one of the best when it comes to inequality, and no one else has combed through the data on inequality like he ...
Jokes aside, I was right about the fact that you cannot read: the quote rightly refers to the fact that UG refers to "the genetic component of the lan...
This is funny because it is so wrong and so commonly known a misconception that it is nothing other than a metaphysical prejudice - it's like opening ...
Of course he claims that. Otherwise he would be shown for the charlatan he is. But what he says and what he does are two very different things. The qu...
It's not demarcation - it's simply because Chomsky literally is wrong about everything. Seriously. If Chomsky said something about language, the truth...
You can indeed, once you realize that GDP numbers are basically meaningless without accounting for who has captured all this wealth. Hint: it isn't th...
Right, so you don't have anything argument apart from an argument from prestige. Got it. Hahahaha, 'evolution happened because some changes took place...
Oh gee, I guess you said it - and Chomsky said it - so it must be true. Given that the vocabulary is dead in the water - something we which all agree ...
I guess I don't see how he could not. The Republican party is the Trump party, and, if you do like polls: https://fortune.com/2022/01/19/democrats-par...
*yawn* Again with the conceptual chauvinism. Again, the failure of Chomsky's toys says nothing about anything else. Just because you'd like to give yo...
In which case so much for the failure of mechanism to imply anything - literally anything - about our cognitive abilities. Nothing has been proposed? ...
I didn't say they don't matter simpliciter. In fact the dilution of the worker-capitalist distinction is precisely one of the reasons that solidarity ...
Sorry but this is just an excuse for what is effectively conceptual chauvinism. There is nothing - nothing - about object permanence that makes physic...
Yep. Buried in among the thirty pages of warbling is an apologia for his effective creationism about language. One suspects all the rest is just so mu...
It's cool that you are largely in control of your own means (although I do wonder how many corporately controlled private platforms you have to rely o...
I'll have to believe it when I see it. I don't trust Australian voters atm. https://www.crikey.com.au/2022/01/18/morrison-legacy-unable-govern/ Also t...
These two things cannot be treated separately, except as an intellectual game. Capitalism is not just any power differential: it is an accumulative on...
Right, and from this he wants to draw the conclusion that there are some things in the world that will always escape us. Again, the latter stands as a...
Exactly. As if, out of some misplaced sense of fealty, we owe these dead concepts and dead people an explanation of exactly why their dead concepts ar...
A social relation to the means of production: typically understood in terms of ownership, or control, or lack thereof. You're welcome to do your own r...
But this is simply not true. Via Christian Kerslake's Immanence and the Vertigo of Philosophy: Like, our intuitions are useless. Forget them. They're ...
In the US, the top 10% of the population own 90% of the shares. The rest confer effectively no managerial rights, other than an entitlement to dividen...
Huh? You think science works or does not work because we can't conceptually retrofit things like 'bodies' and 'the physical'? Eliminate both and scien...
So what? If this were a medieval internet, someone would complain that we still have no sense of 'substance'. But this would not be a comment on the m...
This is something you always read into what people say on this topic. God knows why. Literally no one mentioned a CEO except for you, out of thin air....
'Worker' is a social relation to the means of production. It doesn't change because you get paid more. Look, there are probably some nice fine-grained...
There is no such thing as 'the middle class', which is a capitalist invention meant to distract from the fact that you either own capital, or are a wo...
Would it be that he were just saying that. The failure of the mechanic philosophy - among other things - is Chomsky's license to conclude that there w...
I'm just saying, if one has square holes, it's silly to say that because one has tried to fit the round pegs every which way and failed, that the squa...
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