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A reflection on universal grammars

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The origin of this article is a paper presented to Jean Petitots' seminar ‘Implications sémiotiques de la théorie des catastrophes’ at the Centre de Mathématique Sociale of theEcole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, in June 1976; we are greatly indebted to J. Petitot for helpful comments on the French version. We would also like to express our deepest gratitude to Professor David Berlinski for his patience while waiting for this paper to emerge.

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Bauer, C. A reflection on universal grammars. Synthese 37, 239–251 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00869577

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