autonomy of syntax

Noel Rude nrude at ucinet.com
Tue Dec 21 00:12:35 UTC 1999


Hmm,

        To me, as in all the mind sciences, "emergence" and "supervenience"
seem like covers for ignorance, merely reductionist "promisory notes":
When we know enough about neurons and whatnot, then language will be
accounted for bottom-up.  But until we do, how can we be so sure that
there is no top-down phenomena like grammar?

        Noel



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