“It seems that other cognitive systems — in particular, our system of beliefs concerning things in the world and their behavior — play an essential part in our judgements of meaning and reference, in an extremely intricate manner, and it is not at all clear that much will remain if we try to separate the purely linguistic components of what in informal usage or even in technical discussion we call ‘the meaning of linguistic expression.” -Noam Chomsky 
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“It seems that other cognitive systems — in particular, our system of beliefs concerning things in the world and their behavior — play an essential part in our judgements of meaning and reference, in an extremely intricate manner, and it is not at all clear that much will remain if we try to separate the purely linguistic components of what in informal usage or even in technical discussion we call ‘the meaning of linguistic expression.”

-Noam Chomsky 

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