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Science is based on abstraction. Some aspects of the phenomena described are taken as fundamental, while others are purposely ignored, or relegated to an ancillary part of the theory. This strategy is as legitimate as it is necessary. But it is equally legitimate to question whether the current set of theoretical assumptions and descriptive goals is optimal for the continued progress of the science.
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Hausser, R. (1989). Introduction. In: Computation of Language. Symbolic Computation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74564-5_1
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