Vladimir_Nesov comments on My favorite philosophers - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 07 April 2011 09:51:07AM *  1 point [-]

Chomsky's beliefs include the following: that empirical research has no place in linguistics, that linguistic problems should be solved by expert intuition, that biology is inapplicable to linguistics and psychology, and that language did not evolve.

Not knowing the actual context, I see plausible and true interpretations (that can be characterized by a pragmatic character) of all of these. You'd need to do better.