LV> '...what's the diff? Yes, I'm using the "observed words", just like everyone else. And doing something with them, just like everyone else.'
Yup. Except Chomsky won't use observed words. The entire field of Generative Grammar that he created won't use observed words. Chomsky realized you can't learn a consistent representation from observed words. Not a consistent representation. He held linguistics to the fire over it and created a stink. In the end he chose the wrong solution. He chose to abandon observation to retain consistency. He should have abandoned consistency, linearity, and kept observation. As Lamb argued. But non-linear systems were to so well known in his day. At least Chomsky saw the problem clearly. But as you say: "Time passes. Debates are forgotten." Unfortunately reality stays the same. Those who forget history doomed to live in a loop, forever repeating the mistakes of the past, etc. -Rob ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T581199cf280badd7-Ma596e154ab9bc5ef455e3771 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
