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Subject: RE: [Leica] XXX of the YYY? WAS (something else) (fwd)
From: Daniel Ridings <daniel.ridings@muspro.uio.no>
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 14:38:33 +0100 (MET)
References: <200311220204.hAM24SNc012168@budah.vif.com>

Genius? I've only run in to him in linguistic matters. I wonder about his
theories of "seeing things (language) the way they really are."

When he theorizes about language, he feels no need for substantiating
data. He has an ingenious logic: "I'm talking about language, I have a
language, I need go no further than myself for my supporting data."

A lot of folks buy into that. A lot don't.

Daniel


On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Emanuel Lowi wrote:

> Chomsky is no mere ego. We have met and talked numerous times over the past 20 years
> and, in my view, he is a genius. Genius, in the words of Montreal poet Irving Layton,
> is "simply the ability to see things the way they really are."
>
> Emanuel Lowi
> Montreal
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