Noam Chomsky

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  Why Wittgenstein Needs Chomsky: Language vs. the Language Faculty

  The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.Ludwig Wittgenstein This famous quote from the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus simply means that the categories we use to make sense of the world are part of us, and not part of the world. The boundaries that we draw around classes of objects . . .
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  What Makes Economics a Human Science? Zoöpraxeology and the Abstractive Foundation of Catallactics

  Mises stresses both the purely formal character of praxeology, and the uniqueness of man set apart from animals by goal-directed action. To the extent the former is true, however, the latter becomes less unique to man, and we may usefully interpret animal behavior this way. This suggests that the study . . .