Chomsky

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1. Chomsky - Noun

2. Chomsky - Proper noun

Meaning

United States linguist whose theory of generative grammar redefined the field of linguistics (born 1928)

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Examples

I agree with Chomsky in almost nothing. When it comes to innate structures and so on, I'm very skeptical. Clifford Geertz

The role of the intellectual, so it is said, is to speak truth to power. Noam Chomsky has dismissed this pious tag on two grounds. For one thing, power knows the truth already; it is just busy trying to conceal it. For another, it is not those in power who need the truth, but those they oppress. Terry Eagleton

Noam Chomsky has a book, which I read for the first time when I was in Spain, called 'Fear of Democracy'. There is your answer. Fear of democracy. In Honduras, they had a sham democracy. It was run by elites, what was called a liberal democracy, but in reality was a false democracy. Hugo Chávez

I think Noam Chomsky is a national treasure - make that an international treasure. Jello Biafra

Chomsky just has not entered deeply into what he is talking about and he is not greatly interested in anything except digging out material for anti-American invective. Adrian Hastings

Rejecting Chomsky is almost a full time job. He keeps changing his mind, so you have to study quite a lot of Chomsky before you know all the stuff you can reject. Mark Rosenfelder

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