RE: MD Question

From: Matt the Enraged Endorphin (mpkundert@students.wisc.edu)
Date: Sat Jan 25 2003 - 22:00:43 GMT

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    DMB said:
    I think Matt has misunderstood "universal deep structures" to mean something
    far different than what Chomsky is saying. Its not a universal principle
    that one "posits", but is more like an "organ" in the mind. If you're
    familiar with Kant's idea that all our perceptions are shaped by "the
    categories of the mind" then you already have a good idea what Chomsky was
    getting at.

    Matt:
    Well, either way. A Kantian idea was moreorless the same idea I was after
    and pragmatists are notoriously not very fond of Kant.

    Matt

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