Rules and Representations: Chomsky and Representational Realism
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Speaking as someone who has personally felt the influence of the “Chomskian Turn”, I believe that one of Chomsky’s most significant contributions to Psychology, or as it is now called, Cognitive Science was to bring back scientific realism. This may strike you as a very odd claim, for one does not usually think of science as needing to be talked into scientific realism. Science is, after all, the study of reality by the most precise instruments of measurement and analysis that humans have developed.
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