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  • Quine, Chomsky and connectionism : (or innateness hypothesis reconsidered)
    Jutronić, Dunja
    The paper is a defense of Quine against Chomsky on the language innateness issue in the light of the impact of connectionism in this debate. The author argues for her claim by examining three ... nativistic theses: a. minimal nativism; b. minimal rationalism and c. strong rationalism. The main issue is the degree of domain-specific innateness where connectionism gives more support to Quine than to Chomsky. Connectionism with its insistence on the specification of innate knowledge as a kind of geometric fixation of favorable location brings Quine's idea of the innate quality space to be more congenial than the strong Chomsky's claim for much richer innate structure
    Type of material - article, component part
    Publish date - 1998
    Language - english
    COBISS.SI-ID - 7826952