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Originally Posted by jammies
Chomsky is another great intellectual, but I find his philosophy too partisan and based in outmoded ideas from the sixties. He is more a political commentator than anything else, which is fine, but a hundred years from now his ideas will be mostly irrelevant, which you cannot say about Dawkins (well, you can, but I think you'll be wrong).
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Man, are you nuts? I'm no Chomsky fan, and I'll acknowledge he's into an awful lot of political commentary these days, but the guy is also the father of modern linguisitcs. He's a guy who completely revolutionized a field which has since been continually blossoming and moving forward in leaps and bounds compared to it's pre-Chomsky history. To say that his ideas will be irrelevant in a hundred years is a gross underestimation of his contributions.
And I hate Chomsky.