Myhill on Chomsky

[Jose-Luis Mendivil Giro]

This is my last message about this subject.
Peter A. Reich wrote:

>I'm sure God is cited more than Chomsky (I will not engage in a
>discussion as to whether God is Living), and probably Bill Gates is
>mentioned more than Chomsky as well in the popular media. And Clinton.
>So what? It is perfectly respectable in Canada, at least, to be an
>Atheist, and to prefer Linux or Macintosh. And, in the US, to be a
>Republican. Eat shit; 50 billion insects can't be wrong.--Peter Reich

Of course, when I used a 'quantitative' argument I was not trying to
demonstrate that Chomsky's ideas about language and grammar are correct.
This is an empirical matter, a scientific matter we are not dealing with
here. In fact, someone here has said that the use of, say, 'qualitative'
arguments would be a waste of time.

I was only trying to show Myhill that his vision of Chomsky as a Pope
indoctrinating an international herd of hundreds (or thousands) of icapable
of thinking by themselves linguists and scientists is simply not solvent.
That it is just an insult.

Best Regards,
Jose-Luis.