because cognitive science is just a footnote to Noam Chomsky…
One of the endless efforts involved in trying to understand Chomsky concerns constantly shaking off the urge to identify with -isms. This is, perhaps, best summarised by Chomsky's simple approach to determining moral yardsticks - if it's wrong when they do it, then it's wrong when we do it. In other words, and perhaps as the historian... Continue Reading →
Since Chomsky’s (1981) revision of the Projection Principle (PP) to include the stipulation that every sentence have a subject (Extended Projection Principle; EPP), syntactic theory has been troubled with an apparent explanatory gap. The empirical coverage of the content of EPP is well-documented (Carnie, 1995; Chomsky, 1994), but it remains restricted to a descriptive statement.... Continue Reading →
Everyone who uses GNU/Linux has heard of the big names like Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Red Hat and Mint. These are usually big distributions with a huge number of people and an organized effort behind them. Debian, for instance, is among the oldest of Free Software initiatives, and boasts legendary reliability and stability. Other than being... Continue Reading →
