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Comment by AnimalMuppet

4 days ago

> Sounds a bit like Chomsky's Universal Grammar.

Yes, except with things in it instead of words.

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why-el  4 days ago

Chomsky never argued it was words (and how couldn't it be words, for there are millions of words from 100s of 1000s of languages), just a configuration to eventually learn those words.

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