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		AnimalMuppet 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Human brains are preconfigured with instructions f... > Sounds a bit like Chomsky's Universal Grammar. Yes, except with things in it instead of words.

why-el 4 months ago [–]

Chomsky never argued it was words (and how couldn't it be words, for there are millions of words from 100s of 1000s of languages), just a configuration to eventually learn those words.

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