Posted: Jun 03, 2010 5:39 pm
Horwood Beer-Master wrote:
Read Darwin's Dangerous Idea. Dennett gives over about a third of a chapter to exposing Chomsky's fallacious "skyhook" thinking regarding mind and language.
Basically, Chomsky seems to think language in humans arises through magic (actually that's probably doing him a slight disservice - but only a slight one)
That book is on my list. It's funny because the impression I got from Pinkr is the Chomsky said that we had innate language facualties like we have innate walking or grabbing ability?