Rationalism
My Gf and I are going through Language and Learning: The Debate between Jean Piaget and Noam Chomsky. The argument is basically constructivism versus nativism, and in the opening introduction one of the key editors made an interesting remark :
The overpowering "theme", of the Chomskian scientific research program in linguistics is undoubtedly the classical notion of rationalism. An allegiance to Descartes and Leibniz is recurrent throughout all of Chomsky's major writings. The focal assumption of the rationalist program can be expressed as follows: the environment per se has no structure, or at least none that is directly assimilable by the organism. all laws of order, whether they rae biological, cognitive, or linguistic, come from inside, and order is imposed upon the perceptual world, not derived from it.
The positive heuristics of all such programs, Kant's included, is to characterize in depth and in detail the internal structure of a universal subject through adequate abstractions from empirical givens.
I've never considered rationalism to mean such an extreme of an assumption, but I like it. (1) would you say the editors summary is on par with the actual view of rationalism. (2)On a spectrum of 1-10, where do you scale as far your belief in this supposing the basic presuppositions are accurate? I'm almost a 3, I heavily believe in a heideggerian concept of being always structuring the internal composition of a subject, but lately my experiences have lead me to believe that I am constantly imposing my structure on reality, in my perceptions especially.
The overpowering "theme", of the Chomskian scientific research program in linguistics is undoubtedly the classical notion of rationalism. An allegiance to Descartes and Leibniz is recurrent throughout all of Chomsky's major writings. The focal assumption of the rationalist program can be expressed as follows: the environment per se has no structure, or at least none that is directly assimilable by the organism. all laws of order, whether they rae biological, cognitive, or linguistic, come from inside, and order is imposed upon the perceptual world, not derived from it.
The positive heuristics of all such programs, Kant's included, is to characterize in depth and in detail the internal structure of a universal subject through adequate abstractions from empirical givens.
I've never considered rationalism to mean such an extreme of an assumption, but I like it. (1) would you say the editors summary is on par with the actual view of rationalism. (2)On a spectrum of 1-10, where do you scale as far your belief in this supposing the basic presuppositions are accurate? I'm almost a 3, I heavily believe in a heideggerian concept of being always structuring the internal composition of a subject, but lately my experiences have lead me to believe that I am constantly imposing my structure on reality, in my perceptions especially.