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MLST #78 - Prof. NOAM CHOMSKY (Special Edition)

Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)

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Thinking Is a Syntactic Operation on Mental Sentence

Turing argued that if you assume that thinking is a sintactic operation on mental sentences, then the nature of the analogy between trains of trains of thought and arguments can be made compatible. I'll argue first that thought isn't just productive, it's also systematic. And that the best explanation of maticity presupposes a combinatorial syntax and somantics for mental representation. In natural languages, there are always an infinite number of sematically distinct syntactic forms, right? So i'll take natural language an one sold sort a paradine case on the system which is systematic tomsky and phodor said.

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