Noam Chomsky on Language, Left Libertarianism, and Progress
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Platonism, language, and the infinite scope of finite means
Leibniz believed Plato's theory of reminiscence had to be purged of the error of reminiscence/nHumboldt believed the instinct for freedom lay at the basis of our social and economic reasoning/nLanguage enables infinite use of finite means, according to Humboldt/nThe concept of finite means providing infinite scope is well understood in the theory of computation
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