The poverty-of-the-stimulus argument for community-only acquisition proves too much, as analogous reasoning was used to postulate innate linguistic structure that later empirical work substantially revised.

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Community-only acquisition(as a learning theory): The idea that people learn something entirely from their social environment and culture, with no innate or built-in knowledge helping them.
Empirical work(describing Sowell's research methods): Research based on real-world data and observations rather than just ideas or theories—basically, studying what actually happened in the world.
Innate linguistic structure(as a language acquisition theory): The theory that humans are born with built-in knowledge about how language works, rather than learning grammar rules completely from scratch. This is associated with linguist Noam Chomsky's idea of 'universal grammar.'
Poverty-of-the-stimulus argument(as a philosophical argument structure): A reasoning strategy that says: if children learn something (like language) without enough examples to learn it from, then they must be born knowing it already. It's like saying a kid couldn't have learned chess just from watching two games, so they must have innate chess knowledge.

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