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Noam Chomsky: American Socrates

Open Source with Christopher Lydon

CHAPTER

The Paradox of Language Equipment

There's a sense that somehow there might be some unity there, then maybe there is. Your authorities go way back, and it's the part of Numchomski that doesn't surface in day-to-day interviews. Even your favorites in the Scottish Enlightenment – Enlightenment generally – who of them speaks to our situation today? I think David Hume had some real insights into the nature of politics; he said, you have these strange paradoxes.

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