From: David Buchanan (DBuchanan@ClassicalRadio.org)
Date: Sat Jan 25 2003 - 22:23:24 GMT
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.
DMB says:
OK. I'll bite. Why do pragmatists dislike Kant? I thought that, unlike the
German idealists, they accepted what Kant said about this.
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