OAO - Chomsky

[kellychaos]

I think innate knowledge infers a higher power ... like someone is trying to instill in mankind some "starter knowledge" to set us along our way in the world. The idea of an innate intellectual and/or learning structure/matrix had been broached at least as long ago as Kant and is, obviously true or we wouldn't be conversing right now. I'm not familiar with the impericist's rationale for language but I think, and I'm going on assumptions here, that anyone who assumes that we've ALWAYS had language highly underestimates the human mind and the limits of it's adaptability. I'm of the opinion that, although language hasn't always been around, it's far from the end of it's evolution. It's in a constant state of change with little sparks of hope (i.e. literature, poetry, song, ect.) along the way.