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I am going to note here my thoughts on this question for review later on when my thoughts on this question are not as focused upon this question - understand?
Universal Grammar or UG, by Chomsky, is an observation of something real. UG is, according to the observation, is as much a reality as is the human heart. UG exists. The heart exists.
UG is the thing that people possess in their being that pumps laguage like the heart pumps blood.
If there is an argument against this observation, then, what will that argument contain?
Possible answer: Language
If there is an arguemtn against this observation, then, what will that argument use to pump that language?
Possible answer: Something rather than nothing.
What is the something?
There is the person, of course, who is arguing. The person is pumping the language. There is air being pumped. There is typed words being pumped.
How about getting right down to the very exact time that the argument begins being pumped?
What is that first thing that is being pumped and what pumps that very first thing being pumped.
This isn't that tough.
Choose one thing first. Choose the letter 't' for example.
The letter 't' just appeared back there in this sentence.
't'
There it is again.
There it is, here it is again - 't' - and so a form of language has been identified accurately and it came into being a few times already.
't'
There it is again.
How did it get pumped? It is real. It existed. It can exist again.
't'
See.
How does it get there? What pumps it out?
Dont give up. Progress has aready been made. An example of language has been identified (perhaps):
't'
How does it get there? I type it there. I use my fingers. I type now. I almost typed 't' again. I didn't type 't' again. I did type 't' again. I didn't type 't' alone.
't'
I did type 't' alone.
I didn't.
t
I did.
What pumps that 't' out? Obviously there must be something deciding to pump that 't' out. The brain does it. My brain does it. Does my brain do it on its own?
t
What pumped that t?
I did it. I decided to pump that t.
What are you deciding to do now? Your heart is pumping blood.
t
t
t
t
t
t
If you do not type t, if instead you go make a sandwitch, then, what will you use, what must you utilize, what is the thing that you must have and use to make the sandwitch or type a t?
I'm going to add a book reference and end this effort now with the final question.
What is left when all instinct is removed from a human beings being?
What would happen next?
http://www.amazon.com/Prescription-rebellion-Robert-Mitchell-Lindner/dp/0837180163