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« In conclusion, I believe that there have been two truly productive research traditions that are undoubtedly of interest to those who are now involved in the study of language. The first is the tradition of philosophical grammar that flourishes from the 17th century to Romanticism, the second is the tradition that I called "structuralist", which can be misleading, which dominated the research of the century, at least until the early 1950s. »
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« Descartes also came to the conclusion from the beginning of his research that the study of the mind confronts us with a problem of quality of complexity and not only of degree of complexity. He thought he had shown that understanding and will, the two fundamental properties of the human spirit, involve abilities and include principles that even the most complex automatons cannot achieve. »
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Noam Chomsky
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Noam Chomsky
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« In these conferences, I would like to draw attention to the question: what can be the contribution of language study to our understanding of human nature? `...` At a time that was less self-aware and less compartmentalized than ours, gifted scholars and amateurs, with a wide variety of intellectual interests, points of view and backgrounds, took as a subject of study and speculation the question of whether language reflects human mental processes or whether it forms the course and character of thought. »
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