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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I thought his language theories were disproven?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Chomsky hierarchy is still taught in computer science. That's as much as I know of Chomsky. I don't know anything about his philosophy or natural language contributions

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It still amazes that even for two Chomsky-2 languages it is undecidable whether they are equal or not in the general case. Or whether one context free grammar is unambiguous 🤯