« Humboldt, however, remains Cartesian in that he sees language, above all, as a means of thinking and expressing himself, much more than as a functional system of communication close to that of the animal. »
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Noam Chomsky
Cartesian linguistics - The formal nature of language |
Noam Chomsky
Cartesian linguistics - The formal nature of language
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« It is important to bear in mind that the fact that the presentation presented here is very fragmentary, and therefore in some ways misleading. »
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Noam Chomsky
Cartesian linguistics - The formal nature of language |
Noam Chomsky
Cartesian linguistics - The formal nature of language
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« For many years, the work of the United Nations has been hampered by the great powers, and first of all by the United States - but not by the Soviet Union or by the Third World. Since 1970, the United States has vetoed a much larger number of Security Council resolutions than any other country (Britain comes in second, France is third, far behind, and the Soviet Union fourth). »
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Noam Chomsky
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Noam Chomsky
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