Ockham on mental language

Calvin G. Normore

pp. 53-70

in: J.C. Smith (ed), Historical foundations of cognitive science, Berlin, Springer, 1991

Abstract

Thanks largely to the work of Noam Chomsky, we have witnessed over the last thirty years a revival of interest in two closely related ideas: that there is a universal grammar, a set of structural features common to every human language, and that the exploration of this grammar is, in part, an exploration of the structure of thought.

Cited authors

Chomsky Noam

Ockham William