An Examination of Contemporary Thinkers' Views on Language and Mind مقاله

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Plato's belief in the existence of a kind of innate knowledge matures in the views of rationalists such as Leibniz (← 10) and reaches the views of philosophers like Kant (← 9), who believes that data obtained from the senses are not sufficient for acquiring knowledge and understanding of the external world, and that certain types of knowledge exist in humans beforehand, providing the possibility for humans to attain an understanding of their experiences. In this path, attention must also be paid to the views of Sapir and Whorf, whose attitude toward language is perceived as a type of linguistic determinism 1 and, based on the goal of the present writing, requires its own specific discussion. " One of the pioneers of this attitude in the study of language should be considered the American linguist and University of Chicago professor, Leonard Bloomfield; and perhaps after him, no thinker other than Willard Van Orman Quine can be found on his level who has shown an empirical reaction regarding the relationship between language and what is called the mind. Chomsky's critique of the book "Word and Object," which was published under the title "Quine's Empiricist Hypotheses," addressed opposition to Quine's views both in the details of the content and also questioned the generalities of his attitude, and this was for the reason that Chomsky, as a rationalist, believed in the innateness of language in humans.