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- Jun 21, 2003
Some "amusing" theories inspire thoughts, opening windows to different views, and thus contribute to the advancement of a scientific discipline. Optimality Theory in Linguistics, for instance, has logical flaws. It is more of a paradigm explaining what might have happened, rather than a theory proving what has happened or will happen. Even so, it has been the hottest linguistic theory of the past decade. I guess one of the reasons for partial credit concerns its inspiration value.
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