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The critique provides us with all the details and nuances of his argument. Chomsky argues that languages are mental artifacts that are used by all of us and not socially learned.
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This leads kant to the distinction between noumena, things as they actually are, and phenomena, things as we apprehend them upo... Read More
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Nevertheless the prolegomena itself is difficult reading
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He parts company with philosophical materialists such as marx however when he posits the existence of mind as organized a priori in a specific though unknowable way
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Mind thus is not a tabula rasa on which our first experiences are inscribed and then used in making sense of what follows
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Mind instead shapes all our experiences in terms of its inherent organization
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This means that we can never know the world as it actually is
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Since there is no way to test this claim we are left in the realm of speculative philosophical thought as an end in itself
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Nevertheless it is worth pointing out that modern linguistics especially as practiced by chomsky makes a comparable assumption
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In addition though garfinkel might reject this assessment his ethnomethodological notion of interpretive procedures which enable us to make the social world intelligible for ourselves and each other seems to presuppose a preexisting cognitive structure