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Is Modern Linguistics a Pseudoscience?

stygian blue Fri 08 Nov 01:18:55 2019 No.11126553 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>11127680 >>11127690 >>11130517

Non-computational linguistics doesn't even seem to be trying to be a science, just riding on how bad computational linguistics comes off.

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Anonymous Fri 08 Nov 2019 09:50:16 No.11127414 Report

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linguistics is a do-nothing field.

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Anonymous Fri 08 Nov 2019 09:53:21 No.11127416 Report

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have you read wittgenstein yet

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Anonymous Fri 08 Nov 2019 10:21:08 No.11127457 Report

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Lingustics openly rejects the scientific method as useless, so I guess the answer is yes.

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Anonymous Fri 08 Nov 2019 13:08:10 No.11127680 Report

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>>11126553
Do linguists work with models and theories that by virtue of the scientific method laid out by Poppers can be disproven and thus rejected?
Yes, therefore at least some linguistics fields are a science.

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Anonymous Fri 08 Nov 2019 13:22:12 No.11127690 Report

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>>11126553
>being this 2004

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Anonymous Sat 09 Nov 2019 00:40:28 No.11129151 Report

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>>11127680
You know nothing about linguistics if you think the answer is yes.

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Anonymous Sat 09 Nov 2019 00:48:48 No.11129170 Report

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>>11127414
Seems to me things like reconstructing Proto-Indo-European is a big accomplishment. Something like that could be tested if a previously unknown written language is discovered (and probably has been)

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Anonymous Sat 09 Nov 2019 14:28:53 No.11130517 Report

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>>11126553
>context free grammars
>evolutionary grammars
>formal languages
>propositional logic

These are all valid fields. Language is at the heart of science because everything we communicate we use language to do so. Every model, experiment, finding must be expressed in language.

In fact, models only exist in language. They have no real or non-symbolic structure.

Adding the word computational to things is almost meaningless

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