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    Quartz

    contemporaryPhilosophy of Language / Cognitive Science

    Quartz is a contemporary philosopher or linguist associated with arguments in the philosophy of language and cognitive science, particularly concerning the learnability of grammar from primary linguistic data. Their work engages with debates around nativist and empiricist accounts of language acquisition. The precise scope of their contributions remains limited in the available record.

    Notable Achievements

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    Contributed to debates on the unlearnability of grammar from primary linguistic data (poverty of the stimulus tradition)

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    Engaged with formal learnability theory in the philosophy of language

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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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    contemporary

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    Philosophy of Language / Cognitive Science

    Topic Influence

    Philosophy of Language1
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