Quote: cognitive science and universal grammars treat the existence of patterns as evidence for mental representations and unconscious rules; unfounded

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A typical strategy in cognitive science has been … to postulate combinations of mental representations that will … Epistemically, the existence of the patterns is taken … Epistemically, both the plant and the [vestibular ocular reflex] exhibit systematic patterns, but that provides no evidence at all … obvious but still true in the case of … [p. 245] [Similarly, the existence of a universal grammar is unfounded, as is the existence of a deep unconscious rule for "If it is infrared, don't see it."]   Google-1   Google-2

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