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> # Edward Said

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## More from Noam Chomsky

1. > Chomsky's triumphalistic rhetoric is inversely proportional to the actual empirical results that he can point to. --Frederick Newmeyer, 2003 \[273\]

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2. > Chomsky revived ideas that really had been kind of dormant since the Enlightenment of what is a human like and how does that tie in to our political arrangemen…

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3. > The most striking fact is how consistently people with anything at all to say about language feel the need to strike some attitude for or against Chomsky's ide…

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