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    Hubel

    contemporaryPhilosophy of Language / Generative Linguistics

    Hubel is a contemporary philosopher or linguist associated with arguments in the philosophy of language, particularly concerning the learnability of grammars from primary linguistic data. The work engages with nativist and innatist positions in the tradition of generative linguistics and philosophy of mind.

    Notable Achievements

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    Contributed arguments concerning the unlearnability of natural language grammars from primary linguistic data

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    Engaged with formal learnability theory in the context of linguistic nativism

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    Skepticism

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    The inference from premises (1)-(3) to the conclusion that grammar G is unlearnable from the pld (period) involves an equivocation

    Philosophy of Language

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    The inference from premises (1)-(3) to the conclusion that grammar G is unlearnable from the pld (period) involves an equivocation

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    Philosophy of Language / Generative Linguistics

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    Philosophy of Language1
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