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I have neither studied the work nor investigated the person. These data just showed up in the course of other studies. Mr. Chomsky does not look good.
WPT Sept 04
1965 N. CHOMSKY Aspects of Theory of Syntax 232 Thus we can
regard..gender as a three-valued..dimension. [Oxford English Dictionary, 'three']
Comment : (1) what 'three-valued..dimension' ? On the face of it the expression makes no sense at all. (Will somebody explain ?)
(2) As to gender : I do know of there being two genders, I have not yet heard of any other number of genders on this planet.
(A sci-fi writer once proposed a 5-gender society on some planet somewhere — but this is Earth so far as I can recognize.)
Should one consider an 'effeminate' man, with many degrees of possibly 'effeminacy' ; or an 'emasculate' woman, (many possible degrees) ; or any kind of 'unisex' proposition : such would tend to veer towards one-valued logic.
Morals aside, I for one would prefer that the 3-valued logic be not tampered with by Mr. Chomsky or anybody.
WPT
On CENTENARY EDITION of The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) by William James
A foreword by Micky James and introductions by Eugene Taylor and Jeremy Carrette.
Conclusion: Experience and the Limits of
Psychological Knowledge
Steven Pinker in his popular book linking computational theory of mind and the theory of the natural selection of replicators, How the Mind Works, acknowledges the limits of the scientific project. Echoing Noam Chomsky on the difference between problems and mysteries, he acknowledges that some philosophical problems cannot be solved because �the mind of Homo sapiens lack the cognitive equipment to solve them�91
91 Pinker, S., How the Mind Works, London : Penguin, 1998, p. 561.
London, New York : Routledge 2002, p. lxii.
Comment : this may have actually little to do with Mr. Chomsky, but the proposition "echoing Noam Chomsky" (?) by Mr. Pinker that 'some philosophical problems cannot be solved' is pure bunk, any such 'problems' trace, inevitably and invariably, to the language of the 'philosopher'.
The proposition is without any meaning ; such propositions when offered as true are actually false.
WPT
Author Schaff, Adam.
Uniform Title [ Jẹzyk a poznanie. English]
Title Language and cognition. Introd. by Noam Chomsky. Edited by Robert S. Cohen. Based on a translation by Olgierd Wojtasiewicz.
Publisher New York, McGraw-Hill [1973, c1964]
Description x, 194 p. 21 cm.
Note Translation of Jẹzyk a poznanie.
Note Bibliography: p. 155-179.
ISBN 0070550808
Language English
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