| By the nineteenth century the natural order of innateness emphasized by Aristotle was transformed into a biosocial principle. |
| If this argument is sound, every normal childhood is a deprivation experiment that confirms the innateness of grammar. |
| First, precocity, of which we shall later give numerous examples, and which resembles the innateness of instinct. |
| In reality, plasticity and innateness are almost logically separate. |
| In response to this kind of point, Chomskyans point out that the innateness of UG is an empirical hypothesis supported by a perfectly respectable inference to the best explanation. |
| Relatively little attention is given to his interesting doctrines of innateness, or, more generally, his ontology of thought. |
