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Topics include: The problem of classifying and categorizing data; On kinds of inference applicable to linguistic theorizing; Bloomfieldian linguistics; Chomsky’s disillusionment with the inductivist paradigm; The Chomsky revolution; Correlating theoretical constructs with the reality they purport to represent; Evaluating linguistic hypotheses: what a theory of language should do; An eclectic approach; A tale of two paradigms