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  2. Noam Chomsky - Wikipedia

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    Chomsky discussing ecology, ethics and anarchism in 2014. Chomsky supported the 2011 Occupy movement, speaking at encampments and publishing on the movement, which he called a reaction to a 30-year class war. [140] The 2015 documentary Requiem for the American Dream summarizes his views on capitalism and economic inequality through a "75-minute ...

  3. Digital infinity - Wikipedia

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    Digital infinity is a technical term in theoretical linguistics.Alternative formulations are "discrete infinity" and "the infinite use of finite means". The idea is that all human languages follow a simple logical principle, according to which a limited set of digits—irreducible atomic sound elements—are combined to produce an infinite range of potentially meaningful expressions.

  4. Phonetic space - Wikipedia

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    Chomsky developed the idea that phonetic space is universal and every human is born with a discrete phonetic space. [5] The most cited rebuttal of Chomsky's proposal of a universal and discrete phonetic space is an article by Port and Leary titled, " Against Formal Phonology ". [ 6 ]

  5. Universal grammar - Wikipedia

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    Universal grammar (UG), in modern linguistics, is the theory of the innate biological component of the language faculty, usually credited to Noam Chomsky.The basic postulate of UG is that there are innate constraints on what the grammar of a possible human language could be.

  6. Necessary Illusions - Wikipedia

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    Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies is a 1989 book by United States academic Noam Chomsky concerning political power using propaganda to distort and distract from major issues to maintain confusion and complicity, preventing real democracy from becoming effective.

  7. Noam Chomsky’s Health Decline Prompts Remembrances - AOL

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    O ver the weekend, a number of tributes to public intellectual Noam Chomsky were posted on social media, remarking on his life and career. But the 95-year-old linguist, by all public accounts, is ...

  8. Failed States (book) - Wikipedia

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    Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy is a book by Noam Chomsky, first published in 2006, in which Chomsky argues that the United States is becoming a "failed state", and thus a danger to its own people and the world. It was republished by Haymarket Books in January 2024.

  9. Linguistic universal - Wikipedia

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    Chomsky asserts that UG is the underlying connection between all languages and that the various differences between languages are all relative with respect to UG. He claims that UG is essential to our ability to learn languages, and thus uses it as evidence in a discussion of how to form a potential 'theory of learning' for how humans learn all ...