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This paper examines Noam Chomsky's pioneering and revolutionary work in linguistics (including a devastating dislike of a pioneer of another generation, B.F. Skinner), and his outlook on America's foreign policy.

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"What is interesting about Chomsky's various linguistic investigations is that he seems to believe that there is a sort of universal repertoire of possible sounds from which natural language selects some. Chomsky, in this, opposes the once-popular views of B.F. Skinner, who felt that giving a baby repetitive sounds that have no formal meaning, that baby will ultimately respond, depending on the tone of those nonsense syllables. Chomsky, on the other hand, believes that anything other than a specific meaning for a specific tone and word is fallible and useless."

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