• DOI:10.1023/A:1024738522031
Corpus ID: 26772443

Cowie on the Poverty of Stimulus

@article{Collins2004CowieOT,
  title={Cowie on the Poverty of Stimulus},
  author={J. Collins},
  journal={Synthese},
  year={2004},
  volume={136},
  pages={159-190}
}

J. Collins

Published 2004

Philosophy, Computer Science

Synthese

My paper defends the use of the poverty of stimulus argument (POSA) for linguistic nativism against Cowie's (1999) counter-claim that it leaves empiricism untouched. I first present the linguistic POSA as arising from a reflection on the generality of the child's initial state in comparison with the specific complexity of its final state. I then show that Cowie misconstrues the POSA as a direct argument about the character of the pld. In this light, I first argue that the data Cowie marshals… CONTINUE READING

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