Adequacy Quote by Noam Chomsky Download Open image “. . . among all grammars meeting this condition (of adequacy), we select the simplest.” — Noam Chomsky ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Adequacy Conditions Grammar Meetings Select Simplest
“the rules of English grammar are largely an artificial construct with little or no bearing on the language as it is spoke.” — Ben Aaronovitch Copy Share Image
In a logically perfect language, there will be one word and no more for every simple object, and everything that is not simple will… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The chief characteristic of English grammar is the way words are arranged within sentences, and the technical term for this process is syntax. It” — David Crystal Copy Share Image
Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
The fact that all normal children acquire essentially comparable grammars of great complexity with remarkable rapidity suggests that human beings are somehow specially designed… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Then suddenly, he was struck by a powerful but simple little truth, and it was this: that English grammar is governed by rules that… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“Simplicity may be simple, but like complexity it requires linguistic precision, and may therefore call for relatively obscure expressions at times.” — John White Copy Share Image
As a former English professor, I can assure you that grammar is the qualitative interpolation of language. Adjectives, pronouns, predicates, past pluperfect indicative -… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a major victory… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing? — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It’s a shameful moment for U.S. media when it insists on being subservient to the grotesque propaganda agencies of a violent, aggressive state. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There are questions as to whether it should even exist. Who should corporations be responsive to, the management of a corporation? Theoretically they are… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be - protect themselves. That's why you have state secret laws.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I don't join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn't have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The first thing you ought to do is verify what I present. Just because I say it doesn't make it true. So check it… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I wrote an article about the marine landing [in Haiti] right away, but barely mentioned the oil, because my article would come out two… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
American society is now remarkably atomized. Political organizations have collapsed. In fact, it seems like even bowling leagues are collapsing. The left has a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things. Noam Chomsky — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There's an interesting book about that called The Third Reich and the Ivory Tower, written by Stephen H. Norwood. It has a long discussion… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
This is class war on an international scale, and power is in the hands of those who control the international economic system. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The pragmatist turns away from abstraction and insufficiency, from verbal solutions, from bad a priori reasons, from fixed principles, closed systems, and pretended absolutes… — William James Copy Share Image
To try to be happy is to try to build a machine with no other specification than that it shall run noiselessly. — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
If we respect students abilities to define their own experiences, to generate their own hypotheses, and to discover new ways of categorizing the world,… — Ellen Langer Copy Share Image
My whole academic career was totally out of Jewish anxiety, and issues surrounding achievement and adequacy. — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
The refusal to belong to any school of thought, the repudiation of the adequacy of any body of beliefs whatever, and especially of systems,… — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
The glory does not lie in our inadequacy, but lies in the adequacy of Christ discovered in our weakness and in our insufficiency. — Alistair Begg Copy Share Image
To the best of my knowledge, every acute inpatient ward offers some inpatient group therapy experience. Indeed, the evidence supporting the efficacy of group… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
Way back in the day, when I first started and had delusions of adequacy as a cartoonist, I would listen to music. When I… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Henceforth the adequacy of any military establishment will be tested by its ability to preserve the peace. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
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