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    Abstract concepts required by grammatical rules must be innately represented in the mind

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    • 1.Grammars and rules governing knowledge domains are psychologically real
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    • 2.If the Classical view is correct, psychologically real rules are present in the mind as symbolic constructions
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    • 3.Linguistic grammars involve abstract concepts that are not perceptually available in the data
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    • 1.Connectionist and statistical learning systems demonstrably acquire hierarchical, abstract linguistic representations without pre-specified symbolic rules (Elman 1990).
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    • 2.The poverty of the stimulus argument conflates the underdetermination of explicit rules by data with the impossibility of implicit generalization from distributional patterns.
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    • 3.If abstract grammatical concepts can emerge from learned weight configurations in neural networks, P5's restriction of empiricist mechanisms to surface regularities is empirically falsified.
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    • 1.Wittgenstein's rule-following considerations entail that no fact about a mind determines that it follows one rule rather than another, undermining the claim that rules are 'represented' at all (Philosophical Investigations §201).
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    • 2.If psychological reality of grammar does not require explicit symbolic representation of rules, P2's classical assumption breaks the inference chain from grammar to innate abstract concepts.
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    Connectionism is relevant to the Nativism-Empiricism in two related ways. In the first place, Connectionism provides a natural format for the Empiricist idea that perception provides the basic elements of the mental system (ideas/network-nodes) and experienced regularities among ideas strengthens their connection (associations/weightings) and in this way accounts for learning. But a more important idea is that if Connectionism could be established as a real alternative to the Classical symbol ma
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