Edeman (1992: 37):
During James's time, however, excessive attempts were still being made to use introspection to reach conclusions about the mind, often with dubious results (as in the case of Edward Titchener, who regarded experimental introspection as the "sole gateway to psychology" and elaborated grand theories of sensation and feeling based on this method).
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This method was adopted by Noam Chomsky, who regarded introspection as the "sole gateway" to language and the mind, with similarly dubious results. In Chomsky's case, this reflects the fact that his linguistics is Cartesian, and concerned with the res cogitans, and so, concerned with knowledge of language, rather than language itself (as res extensa). Consequently, because intuitions are instances of knowledge, such introspections constitute the data to be accounted for by a theory of knowledge of language. This appears to be unknown to most, if not virtually all, linguists working in Chomskyan Formal linguistics.
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