Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/11/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Genius? I've only run in to him in linguistic matters. I wonder about his theories of "seeing things (language) the way they really are." When he theorizes about language, he feels no need for substantiating data. He has an ingenious logic: "I'm talking about language, I have a language, I need go no further than myself for my supporting data." A lot of folks buy into that. A lot don't. Daniel On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Emanuel Lowi wrote: > Chomsky is no mere ego. We have met and talked numerous times over the past 20 years > and, in my view, he is a genius. Genius, in the words of Montreal poet Irving Layton, > is "simply the ability to see things the way they really are." > > Emanuel Lowi > Montreal > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html