[Corpora-List] Bootcamp: 'Quantitative Corpus Linguistics with R'--re Louw's endorsement

[John F. Sowa]

Bob, Chris, Wolfgang, et al.,

All of this argumentation seems hopelessly confused by different
assumptions about what a "cognitive" approach is supposed to be.

For the record, I suggest that everybody who is arguing about whether
a cognitive approach is consistent with a corpus-based approach look
at the papers that were presented at the founding meeting of the
Cognitive Science Society.  The early archives are available for
free download:

   http://www.cogsci.rpi.edu/CSJarchive/1980v04/index.html

The charter for cognitive science was a very broad interdisciplinary
approach, and they explicitly tried to include all of the positions
that everybody has been arguing for and against in these recent emails.

Wolfgang's roughly Wittgensteinian approach is as solidly within
the mainstream of cognitive science as Chomsky's appeal to intuition.
Personally, I prefer Wittgenstein to Chomsky, but I wouldn't kick
anybody out of the party just because they had a different preference.

John Sowa


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