38: Generativism 2: How It's Going (with Taylor Miller and Adam Tallman)
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The Unfalsifiability of Poly Synthetic Languages
Taylor: I think this unfalsifiability thing really needs to we need to zoom in on it because it's a major problem for me. Adam: Can you tell me why you think that generativeism might in some way be unfalsifiable? Taylor: You got to prove it is wrong. Yeah. So I don't think generative is unfalsifiable and I don'tthink that's the issue, right? It's that there's a lot of hypotheses within generative ism and a lot of hypothesis within functionalism that aren't falsifiable.
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