“…it is surprising to see how rarely this assumption has been challenged, insofar as the organization and function of the intellectual faculties are concerned, even with the Freudian revolution.
Correspondingly, the far-reaching studies of language that were carried out under the influence of Cartesian rationalism…"
Language and Mind
Noam Chomsky
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"The person who has acquired knowledge of a language has internalized a system of rules that relate sound and meaning in a particular way. The linguist constructing a grammar of a language is in effect proposing a hypothesis concerning this internalized system."
Language and Mind
Noam Chomsky
Nude Academy