FWD: Re: J. O'Connor on Chomsky

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Nov 5 11:08:44 PST 1998


C. G. Estabrook wrote:


>And over against the PoMo pooh-pooh of any talk of human nature

Many Marxists have also objected to talk of "human nature." Does that make them PoMo's too?

Besides, pointing to an innate capacity for language in humans doesn't tell you anything about what languages we actually come to speak, or what we say when we talk.

Doug



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