Questions tagged [chomsky]
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Is the unlearned nature of language a la Chomsky a way back into logical empiricist epistemology?
***I'm struggling to erect the supports of this question because of lack of knowledge, I hope that it makes sense and is useful and appropriate for this site.
I'm hoping there's a form of logical ...
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Maudlin and Chomsky on Newton and the shift toward "unintellgible" science
My questions arise after listening to Chomsky and Tim Maudlin talk about Newton's theories.
Maudlin:
"it turns out that at this moment in history [now] the physicists have to a large extent ...
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Gpt-3 and Chomsky
Why does Chomsky assert that GPT-3 is not a language model ? video here at 1:12:00
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Chomsky's continuation of grammar to politics?
I suspect Chomsky presumes an existence of the human condition for universal grammar. This in turn enables him to have confidence in his political beliefs by means of self reflection and knowledge of ...
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Is Architecture a Language?
I am puzzling over this question awhile, and I can’t find any good, clear reference on the topic without going way to deep into linguistics and getting too abstract. Can anybody explain to me if ...
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Chomsky-- On Language and the Essential Chomsky
I have taken an interest in the philosophy of language and have studied on my own the equivalent of a undergrad course in the philosophy of language.
I want to know if Chomsky's On Language is ...
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What are some of the criticisms of Noam Chomsky and his ideas?
I absolutely adore listening to Chomsky and, of course, I agree with pretty much everything he says.
But that is because his and my ideologies align with each other.
However, not everybody shares my ...
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Does Google's latest translation tool support Jerry Fodor's Language of Thought Hypothesis?
Google recently updated their translation tool so that it can now translate between language pairs that it hadn't seen before, something they're calling "zero-shot translation." See here for ...
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