You beat me to that. Miles, really, what's with the empirical fetish? ;-) That is indeed blunt, but in a different sense than you intended.
--ravi
> Neither do
> theoretical physicists. Chomsky had no research program. Jesus
> fucking
> Christ.
>
> MM
>
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 1:01 AM, Miles Jackson <cqmv at pdx.edu> wrote:
>
>> Michael Smith wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:40:20 -0700
>>> Miles Jackson <cqmv at pdx.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> I have to ask a semi-snarky question: if C. never did any
>>>> empirical work,
>>>> in what sense did he have a "research program"?
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> He asked questions that research could answer.
>>>
>>
>> Cool! I ask lots of questions that research could answer--I guess
>> I have a
>> research program too!
>>
>> Miles
>>
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