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    Wiley

    contemporaryPhilosophy of Language, Philosophy of Linguistics

    Wiley is a contemporary philosopher working in the philosophy of linguistics and cognitive science. Their work engages with formal arguments concerning language learnability, particularly the inferential structure of poverty-of-the-stimulus reasoning and what constraints follow from the limits of primary linguistic data. Specific biographical details are not widely documented in major reference sources.

    Notable Achievements

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    Contributed formal analysis of grammar learnability arguments from primary linguistic data

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    Engaged with poverty-of-the-stimulus debates in the philosophy of linguistics

    Positions & Arguments(1)

    Skepticism

    claim

    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, Philosophy of Linguistics

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    Philosophy of Language1
    Skepticism1

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