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    Learners nonetheless acquire such knowledge. — Carmelics
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    Supports→It is implausible that people know facts such as 'trees are not cars' or 'McDonald's is not a branch of the CIA' by possessing analogs to the Language Acquisition Device for each domain.

    Learners nonetheless acquire such knowledge.

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    knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
    Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.

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    The previous objections to the Unlearning Problem Argument made the points, first, that negative evidence does exist in the pld (in the form of regularities both in others' language use and in how others react to children's own productions), and second, that children (and other animals) seem very good at exploiting this kind of information for the purposes of learning about their world. This would seem to be rather a good thing, given that there is reason to think that learners must be ab

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