You're moving the goalposts. You specifically mentioned his "principles." That's been given. Anyone who accepts this principle may arrive at different...
No, it isn't. That other systems are involved in language is not speculation, it's fact. That the nervous system is involved in the visual system isn'...
Sure, and the suggestion is wrong because "two modes of language" is meaningless. It's two modes of communication -- phatic and informational. Communi...
I'm not even sure phatic communication is an expression of thought, but let's say it is. It's certainly true that phatic means socio-pragmatic, and th...
Of what gets externalized in communication, most is phatic. The rest can be exchange of information. What "information" gets exchanged? There's an inf...
Chomsky has repeatedly stated, for the last 60 years, what he sees as the essential principle of anarchism:that power should be justified. That is to ...
My sentence was misleading. I forgot to put "most of what gets externalized." Obviously of the small part of what does get externalized, there's excha...
I'm not sure what "confirming" refers to here. "Emoting" is also vague -- one can emote without language. Animals can emote as well in this sense. Fur...
Well when looking at the "function" of something, as vague as that notion is, what's usually done is to look at characteristic use to give you some in...
As I said before, music and arithmetic may have evolved separately, or they could be piggybacking off of language. There's a much more plausible reaso...
Not just irrational -- incoherent. Former is a groundless assertion; the latter completely wrong. We experience "nothing" all the time -- we know we d...
Fine. The only beings that experience are living things -- namely, animals. That's like saying that all things that don't "experience" in this sense, ...
That "it" may not be a faculty that is language specific: what's the "it" refer to? There's no question other systems are involved in language. Well n...
That's not at all natural. Using being to describe a "subject experiencing and reflecting" is a very narrow and idiosyncratic use. "Being" is used all...
Of course there's more. How language manifests itself is very complex. What I'm talking about is the uniquely human characteristic of language -- and ...
Let me see if I can parse this a little: : (1) being is an experience. (2) non-being is not an experience. (3) Being will always be. I don't see how e...
Exactly right. And perhaps an exaptation not only language, but arithmetic, music, etc. All unique properties of humans, all with this property that d...
(1) The core element of language isn't communication. Communication is one aspect of language. (2) So far as we know, only human beings have this capa...
I don't understand this sentence. "Nothing else that enters into it"? What's "it"? Being? What does the "else" refer to? Sure. What Heidegger is drivi...
Thank you. Hardly a "war," though. (For it to be a war, you need an opponent of some kind. StreetlightX is still stuck in intellectual adolescence -- ...
One way of distinguishing is to analyze a property of all human languages: that of recursive enumeration. The ability, as Von Humboldt noted, of using...
Regarding your confusion about what is being discussed regarding navigation (quoting the one article you've half-read and completely failed to underst...
If there's something else that's been raised, let me know. Perhaps I missed it. But I'm not seeing anything else except his misunderstandings and vari...
Is this a joke? What exactly did he "disregard"? Carol Chomsky studied language acquisition in children for years, actually. I suppose that was all di...
If you take a baby from any culture on Earth, and raised them in (say) the United States, they'd grow up learning English. This simple fact -- and the...
Eh, more nonsense. You repeatedly quote the Evans article. So here's a response, for those interested: https://www.languagesoftheworld.info/generative...
Yes, studying different cultures, base number systems, music, etc., is all very interesting and important as well. Studying various languages of the w...
"e suggest that by considering the possibility that FLN evolved for reasons other than language" This seems to be where you're confused. As I've repea...
For anyone truly interested in Chomsky's linguistics, here's a good place to start: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=068Id3Grjp0&t=4637s Skip to about ...
He doesn't show he understands Chomsky at all, repeatedly. He's cited a number of articles by Chomsky's detractors, and one article from Science -- wh...
Chomsky isn't saying natural selection doesn't happen, nor is he calling evolution into doubt in any way whatsoever. He's saying, and has said for yea...
Every human being has the capacity for arithmetic. There's little evidence that many primitive societies use it. The Babylonians had a sexagesimal num...
Good advice. Although a simple understanding of what you're criticizing is good start too. So far I see no understanding whatsoever. I wouldn't mind t...
Before throwing around insults, try to demonstrate that you understand what you're discussing. What you've just described is such a strawman that anyo...
Yes, that's the dogma. But it's not true. The story of a "small adaptation" spreading and being refined is just as fantastical. It's like saying arith...
Language is a digital infinite system. Like the number system. You can create infinite expressions. This is so obvious to even point it out is stating...
I suppose you're equally skeptical about relativity, evolutionary biology, electromagnetism, civil engineering, and other subjects of which you haven'...
Or feel free to grill me on it. If I can't explain it well enough for you to understand, then I hardly have the right to simply refer you to some othe...
Then consciousness is being? Like I said, you're then interpreting being in relation to the human being, particularly the human lifespan or human cons...
Also, are you familiar with the tadoma method for there deafblind? People can get a complex understanding of language from this. It's never been shown...
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