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Mental Representations, Noam Chomsky
Mental Representations, Noam Chomsky
Syracuse Scholar (1979-1991)
Knowledge of language (and probably much else) can properly be regarded as a system of mental representations and operations to form and modify them. In these terms, many problems concerning language and knowledge can be reasonably approached, sometimes solved, though many mysteries remain, and prospects are opened to incorporate this inquiry within the natural sciences.
The Human Sciences: Obstacles And Opportunities, Alexander Rosenberg
The Human Sciences: Obstacles And Opportunities, Alexander Rosenberg
Syracuse Scholar (1979-1991)
An explanation of the failure of the social sciences to attain their aim of providing improvable laws of human behavior, together with a recommendation about where to look for such laws.
The Oldest Grammar Of Hindustani, Tej K. Bhatia
The Oldest Grammar Of Hindustani, Tej K. Bhatia
Syracuse Scholar (1979-1991)
The oldest grammar of Hindustani, written by a German in Dutch, was considered to have been lost by most modern scholars until 1931. This article is the first authentic treatment of that rare grammar since it was translated into Latin approximately two and a half centuries ago.
Towards The Holocaust: The Social And Economic Collapse Of The Weimar Republic, Michael N. Dobkowski, Isidor Wallimann
Towards The Holocaust: The Social And Economic Collapse Of The Weimar Republic, Michael N. Dobkowski, Isidor Wallimann
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The social system of Weimar Germany has always been controversial. From the start 1Weimar society was characterized by a peculiar fluidity: between 1913 and 1933, the German Reich, commonly referred to as the Weimar Republic, was a virtual laboratory of sociocultural experimentation. In the streets of German towns and cities, political armies competed for followers--a process punctuated by assassinations and advertised by street battles embroiling monarchists, imperial militarists, nihilistic war veterans, Communists, Socialists, anarchists, and National Socialists. Parliamentary activity involved about twenty-five political parties whose shifting alliances produced twenty governmental cabinets with an average lifespan of less than nine months.