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Originally Posted by JohnnyB
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.
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I am referring to his philosophical writings as previously referenced in the paragraph, not his science. You are correct in that he is the prime motivator behind the modern understanding of how humans gain and use language, however that is not what I am talking about there.