As everyone knows, Noam Chomsky is both one of the world’s reigning experts on the nature of language and the brain’s acquisition thereof. He is also widely known for his views on various socio-political issues around the globe. I have attended several conferences where his views on language acquisition were the main topic, and at…

I once saw a cartoon in which one guy says to another: “I’ve made a careful study of logic and it’s all a bunch of hooey.” It’s really impossible to do without logic so we might as well try to get it right. “Deductive” logic is what is usually taught in college classes and involves…