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I don't think all thinking is a kind of rational structure. But I don't think it is correct to identify the rational-nonrational dichotomy with the linguistic-nonlinguistic dichotomy.

Noam Chomsky

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Noam Chomsky
Age: 95
Born: 1928
Born: December 7
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