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Iman Jomaa
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Einstein once said that 'theories should be simple, but not too simple'
— Oct 23, 2015 03:17AM
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Iman Jomaa
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To acquire language, a child must devise a hypothesis compatible with presented data_ he must select from the store of potential grammars a specific one that is appropriate to the data available to him.
— Oct 23, 2015 02:43AM
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Iman Jomaa
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Linguists claimed that the point where structure and meaning interface is 'Deep Structure'
— Oct 21, 2015 07:10PM
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Stanley
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from p.115:
"Nature may be the way it is because of some accident that happened at some point in time. Call this the historical answer. Or nature may be the way it is because that is the simplest way it could be. Call this the Galilean answer. The historical answer [...] is never deep. Things could well have been otherwise. [...] By contrast, the Galilean answer implies that things couldn't have been otherwise.[..]
— Aug 12, 2015 09:42AM
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"Nature may be the way it is because of some accident that happened at some point in time. Call this the historical answer. Or nature may be the way it is because that is the simplest way it could be. Call this the Galilean answer. The historical answer [...] is never deep. Things could well have been otherwise. [...] By contrast, the Galilean answer implies that things couldn't have been otherwise.[..]
