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Title: Language and Problems of Knowledge: The Managua Lectures (Current Studies in Linguistics) by Noam Chomsky ISBN: 0-262-53070-8 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 27 August, 1987 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Summary: Chomsky's not the Genius he's made out to be
Comment: Noam Chomsky insists that the mind-body problem can't be solved or formulated and that theories of meaning remain unsuccessful. Apparently he still perpetuates the extraordinary ignorance of Aristotilian/Thomistic philosophy that he has previously been so accused along with the rest of modern philosophy.
For example, in Mortimer Adler's 1967 work of genius, "The Difference of Man and the Difference it Makes", Adler has this to say about the mind-body argument of Aristotle and Aquinas on p.223, "Because the moderate immaterialism of Aristotle and Aquinas is totally neglected or ignored in the contemporary discussion, we cannot look for criticisms of it, or objections to it, in current philosophical literature."
More explicitly, Adler has this to say in the notes on p.329 about theories of Meaning - "The Institute For Philosophical Research is currently engaged in the study of the whole discussion of language and thought and especially the problem of meaning. We have examined most of the major twentieth-century treatments of this subject. We have found only two contemporary writers who indicate some awareness of the correct version of the triadic theory of meaning, J.N. Findlay and R. Chisholm. Others among contemporaries who comment on the triadic theory are either unacquainted with the Aristotilian version or so misunderstand it that they treat that version and the Lockean version as if they were identical, Ogden and Richards. The rest manifest no awareness at all of the triadic theory in its correct version and, in addition, do not seem to understand the problem that it tried to solve and succeeded in solving." To my knowledge Descartes, Locke, Hobbes, Liebniz, Spinoza, Hume, Berkley, Kant and Comte are all on the list of ingorant as well.
My Recommendations are Mortimer Adler's books "The Difference of Man and The Difference it Makes" (1967), and "Some Questions About Language" (1976 - without question the best book ever written on the subject), and Jacques Maritain's "Degrees of Knowledge" (1959), and John Deely's "What Distinguishes Human Understanding?" (2002). Other geniuses like Etienne Gilson are to be read by anybody interested in learning about philosophy.
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Title: Knowledge of Language : Its Nature, Origins, and Use by Noam Chomsky ISBN: 0275917614 Publisher: Praeger Publishers Pub. Date: 14 January, 1986 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Aspects of the Theory of Syntax by Noam Chomsky ISBN: 0262530074 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 15 March, 1969 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: On Power and Ideology: The Managua Lectures by Noam Chomsky ISBN: 089608289X Publisher: South End Press Pub. Date: June, 1987 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: On Nature and Language by Noam Chomsky, Adriana Belletti, Luigi Rizzi ISBN: 052101624X Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 10 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: Cartesian Linguistics: A Chapter in the History of Rationalist Thought by Noam Chomsky ISBN: 187727545X Publisher: Cybereditions Corporation Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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