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From: curry@hpl.hp.com (Bo Curry)
Subject: Re: What's innate? (Was Re: Artificial Neural Networks and Cognition
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Jeff Dalton (jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk) wrote:
: But of course the UG is uiversal: it's constructed to be universal.
: (Surely Chomsky et al change their account of the UG when they encounter
: something the current version gets wrong or doesn't explain.)  So
: it matters what Chomsky's theories look like: it matters that they're
: not incredibly _ad hoc_.

Well, sure.

Bo
