SÃO PAULO.- This Tuesday it became known that the writer and linguist Noam Chomsky He died at the age of 95. However, hours later his family denied this version.
The news of the alleged death of the American political scientist and philosopher occurs a year after he suffered a cerebral infarction (stroke), after which he was in a hospital São Paulo Brazil for its recovery.
Noam Chomsky’s health status
In June 2023, the professor suffered a massive stroke which caused him serious health problems such as difficulties speaking and moving.
For this reason he was in a hospital in Brazil, recovering and in critical condition, the US agency reported. The Associated Press.
Noam Chomsky’s death denied
Through social networkstwo close collaborators of Noam Chomsky denied the death of the academic, reported for the first time by the Jacobin Magazine – which has already deleted the note.
Jose M. Santana, research associate at MIT, said he had communicated with Valeria Chomsky, wife of the philosopher, who denied that he had died and was reportedly recovering from his past health problems.
RT also reported that reports of Noam Chomsky’s death were false.
Who is Noam Chomsky and what is his contribution to linguistics?
From Philadelphia, United States, Noam Chomsky, was considered as by The New York Times as “the most important intellectual today.”
For Chomnsky, language is an innate human capacity.
His theory states that language learning is “genetic” and is acquired spontaneously, that is, that human beings are born with an “innate predisposition” to acquire language.
He is also a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) claimed that speech “has not evolved for more than 70,000 years.”
Regardless of the language, the language spoken “has a genetic structure, a natural node, children learn it spontaneously.”
“Nothing can be acquired if it is not universalized, learning to swim or a language is fixed by genetic endowment,” he said upon receiving the diploma of ‘Honorary Professor’ of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the Buenos Aires’ University.
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2024-07-02 23:29:28