Animal Quote by Noam Chomsky

“(19) Signalling promotes the centralisation of authority.”

— Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon

“(20) There is an inverse law between robust doctrine and the need for signalling.”

— Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon

In general, signalling theory says that if you have a good way of proving something and a noisy way of proving something, and you…

— Vitalik Buterin

“The promise of signalling fosters a neglect of doctrine.”

— Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon

No one seriously doubts that if Piraha children are brought up in Boston they'll be speaking Boston English, that is, that the capacities are…

— Noam Chomsky

I think the most important work that is going on has to do with the search for very general and abstract features of what…

— Noam Chomsky

Imagine an extrahuman observer looking at us. Such an extrahuman observer would be struck precisely by the uniformity of human languages, by the very…

— Noam Chomsky

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.

— Noam Chomsky

The very properties of the human mind that provide an enormous scope for human genius in some domains will serve as barriers to progress…

— Noam Chomsky

There are very deep and restrictive principles that determine the nature of human language and are rooted in the specific character of the human…

— Noam Chomsky

The earliest language was body language and, since this language is the language of questions, if we limit the questions, and if we only…

— Paulo Freire

Language,-human language,-after all is but little better than the croak and cackle of fowls, and other utterances of brute nature,-sometimes not so adequate.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne