Russell (1961: 293):
Mathematics, the world of ideas and all thought about what is not sensible, have, for Pythagoras, Plato, and Plotinus, something divine; they constitute the activity of nous, or at least the nearest approach to its activity that we can conceive.
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These thoughts appear in Chomskyan Formal Linguistics in the guise of knowledge of language constituting the activity of the mind. It leads easily to an interpretation of Universal Grammar as a 'divine spark' in the human; cf. Chomsky's biologically implausible single macromutation as the evolutionary origin of (knowledge of) language.
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