Re: [Heartlogic-dev] More meat for the ontological stew (fwd)

[Joshua N Pritikin]

On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 21:26 -0500, William L. Jarrold wrote:
> ....Oh well, I guess  I wont' be adding this to the wiki.  The site
> is down and this email will be lost in the void once sent.  Someone, 
> please add it.

Added.

> And more recently, Rob Freeman suggested that perhaps we need to
> take a completely different approach to linguistics since the old approach
> has been so nonproductive over so many decades.

I took a look at http://www.chaoticlanguage.com/  For me, the most
important sentence on this web site is:

"In our system grammatical rules depend on examples, examples do not
depend on rules."

This is exactly what Tomasello advocates in his book "Constructing a
Language".

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