Russell (1961: 548):
'I think, therefore I am' makes mind more certain than matter, and my mind (for me) more certain than the minds of others. There is thus, in all philosophy derived from Descartes, a tendency to subjectivism, and to regarding matter as something only knowable, if at all, by inference of what is known of the mind. These two tendencies exist both in Continental idealism and in British empiricism — in the former triumphantly, in the latter regretfully.
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In Chomskyan Formal Linguistics, it is not language that is modelled, but an ideal speaker's knowledge of language.
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