Fri Sep 29 09:00:07 EDT 2006
Richard Adelstein wrote:
> On the earlier point that spontaneous order always
> relies on a
> background of central planning, I'd offer the
> counterexample of the
> natural languages, which are spontaneously ordered
> phenomena which
> require no conscious cultivation or supervision at
> all.
>
If Chomsky turns out to be correct about innate
representational structures for language, I have to
wonder how one can describe natural languages as
spontaneous.
Michael Nuwer