Re: chomsky quote

From: David H Kirshner (dkirsh@lsu.edu)
Date: Thu Dec 04 2003 - 07:24:33 PST

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You might also want to look at Jerry Fodor's book--a longtime supporter of
Chomsky's innateness hypothesis.
David

Fodor, J. A. (1987). The modularity of mind. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

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Steven Pinker has some similar quotations in How the Mind works. Would
that help as a substitute?

Quoting Mike Cole <mcole@weber.ucsd.edu>:

>
> I have been trying to identify the source of this (presumed) quote
> from
> Chomsky:
>
> The mind is not a system of general intelligence. Rather, the mind
> has distinctive subsystems such as a language faculty, a cognitive
> system, [etc.].
>
> I have looked all over the place, but have failed. Can anyone
> identify the
> source, or was it imported by a unicorn?
> mike
>

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