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Authors: Noam Chomsky

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Haldane, J. B. S.
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,
53
Hale, Kenneth
17
,
62
Halle, Morris
21
Hamilton, William D.
104
Harman, Gilbert
100
Harris, Zellig
38
,
80
,
81
,
86
Hauser, Marc
100
,
109
,
286
evolution of communication
12
,
58
faculty of language
60
,
170
,
172
,
268
,
269
hearing
48
Helmholtz, Hermann von
73
,
97
Herbert of Cherbury
181
Higginbotham, Jim
129
,
130
Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy
196
homunculus
37
,
290
Hornstein, Norbert
29
,
183
,
265
human behavior
138–151
,
286
human evolution
2
,
13
,
71
developmental constraints on
41
‘great leap forward'
13
,
70
,
77
human nature
95–102
,
108–112
and biological capacities
95
Chomsky on
95–102
determined and uniform
95
,
99
distinctiveness of
176–179
enlightenment conception of
142
and evolution
103–107
‘great leap forward'
179
moral agency
101
plasticity of
121
humanitarian intervention
121
,
122
,
287
humans, genetic variation
13
Hume, David
26
,
90
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99
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106
,
179
color problem
247–248
,
286
theory of moral nature
63
,
99
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109
Huxley, Thomas
23
I-beliefs
153–156
definition of
156
I-concepts
153–156
definition of
155
I-language
81
,
153–156
,
164
,
239
,
258
,
266
intensional specification of
167
imagination
70
,
161
inclusiveness
62
,
281
induction
88
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90
,
95
inference
73
,
165
,
221
information
208
,
213
,
218
,
228
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229
,
254
pragmatic
30
semantic
29
,
260
innateness
39–45
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60
,
89
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91
,
255
,
267
,
284
innatism
123
innovation
71
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74
,
95
,
177
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178
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185
,
282
technological
145
insects, study of
147
instinct
96
,
143
,
178
,
181
,
247
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248
,
287
instrumentalism
211
intention (see also nativism)
163
internalism
6
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228
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248
,
262–263
,
269
,
287
and concepts
188
,
190
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209
,
255–257
,
260
,
272
intuitions
125
,
126
island sentences
50
Jackendoff, Ray
170
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172
Jacob, François
24
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53
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60
,
243
Joos, Martin
145
justice
120
Kahneman, Daniel
140
Kant, Immanuel
90
Kauffman, Stuart
21
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22
,
266
Kayne, Richard
55
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84
,
241
Keller, Helen
45
Kissinger, Henry
101
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107
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113
,
287
Klein, Ralph
111
knowledge
70
,
193
See also
information
Kripke, Saul
126
Kropotkin, Peter
103
,
111
language
and agency
124–128
as an animal instinct
178
and arithmetical capacities
16
and biology
21–30
,
80
,
235
,
284
biophysical explanations of
208
and brain morphology
46
capacity for
70
,
164
characteristic uses of
11–12
cognitive benefits of
2
competence and use
63
and complex thought
1
complexity of
52
,
146
compositional character of
37
computational theory of
174
,
272
and concepts
71
,
198
conceptual resources of
212
displacement property
16
distinctive features
22
domination
232–238
expectations for
54
externalization of
52
,
78
,
79
,
153
,
222
,
278
flexibility
95
,
162
,
197
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210
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224
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227
formal languages
16
,
17
,
289
formal theory of
21–30
functions of
11–20
,
164
,
165
generative capacity
49
head-first
240
hierarchical structure
232–238
I-language
153–156
,
164
,
239
,
258
,
266
interface conditions
25
internal
37
internal, individual and intensional
37
,
154
,
167
a ‘knowledge' system
187
,
193
localization of
46
,
59
,
69–74
and mathematics
181
modularity of
59
movement property
16
,
85
,
108
,
264–265
as a natural object
2
,
7
nominalizing languages
155
open texture of
273
and other cognitive systems
271
phonetic features
42
phonological features
42
,
57
precursors of
43
,
77
properties of
22
,
37
,
60
,
62
public language
153
,
288
purposes of
224
and reason
181
result of historical events
84
rules of
165
,
221
,
223
,
224
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225
,
283
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284
and science
124–128
sounds available in
282
structural features of
42
structure of
236
,
277–278
study of
36
,
76
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79
,
154
See also
linguistics
theories of
164
,
193
,
239
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243
,
285
unboundedness
177
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262
uniqueness to humans
150
variation in the use of
164
,
239–242
language faculty
74
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172
,
177
,
243
,
260
,
261
,
270
adicity requirements of
198
,
199
perfection of
50
language of thought
27
,
71
,
189
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190
,
220
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230
,
269
Lasnik, Howard
85
learning
95
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180
,
200
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226
,
281
,
282
empiricism and
173
,
179
learning a language
187
,
225
,
226
Lenneberg, Eric
21
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43
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47
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59
Lepore, E.
195
Lewis, David
153
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165
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220
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222
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223
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224
Lewontin, Richard
58
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157
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170
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172
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173
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175
,
231
lexical items
62
categories of
234
origin of
46
liberalism
98
linguistic communities
222
linguistic development
39
See also
development
linguistic practices
221
,
223
linguistic principles
237
,
276
linguistics
19
,
36
,
82
,
145
and biology
150
first factor considerations
45
,
96
,
148
and natural science
38
and politics
152
procedural theories in
149
second factor considerations
148
,
277
structural
80
theories of
87
,
265
third factor considerations:
separate entry
Locke, John
26
,
125
,
267
personal identity
31
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271
secondary qualities
256
logic, formal
251
Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory
84–85
Lohndal, Terje
57
Lorenz, Konrad
21

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