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Quotes from Rules and Representations — Noam Chomsky

born 1928 United States

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Intrinsic (psychological) structure is rich . . . and diverse.

Rules and Representations (1980)

We take for granted that the organism does not learn to grow arms or to reach puberty... When we turn to the mind and its products, the situation is not qualitatively different from what we find in the case of the body.

Rules and Representations (1980)

We may usefully think of the language faculty, the number faculty, and others as 'mental organs,' analogous to the heart or the visual system or the system of motor coordination and planning. There appears to be no clear demarcation line between physical organs, perceptual and motor systems and cognitive faculties in the respects in question.

Rules and Representations (1980)

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