Talk:Arts and Humanities Citation Index

Top ten most highly cited doubted

The list compiled below is based on the A&HCI publication in the year 2000 of the most frequently cited individuals/works in the last 7 years, i.e. from 1993-2000. The top 10 were, in order of highest to lowest frequency, as follows:

1. Karl Marx
2. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
3. William Shakespeare
4. Aristotle
5. the Bible
6. Plato
7. Sigmund Freud
8. Noam Chomsky
9. Friedrich Hegel
10. Cicero

Noam Chomsky is the only living member of the above list.

The above seems to suggest that there is no more danger of "Two Cultures" between sciences and humanities that were so bitterly deplored by C. P. Snow (1959). The five contemporaries, as indicated above, are not purely men of art but rather of science who without exception made so radical scientific claims or hypotheses, though quite unfalsifiable and even pseudo-scientific.

In short, let us note Noam Chomsky, for example, as "the only living member of the above list." While he is basically a grammarian who might be traditionally regarded as a man of art, he starts from such a radical scientific hypothesis called innatism, hence a radical man of science.

In 1959, Snow spoke loud of Two Cultures, and Chomsky scathingly reviewed behaviorist (scientist) B. F. Skinner's Verbal Behavior published in the same year (1957) as Chomsky's Syntactic Structures. Either is a highly scientific work indeed. Unfortunately, however, a vital rationalist challenged a vital empiricist. This occasion is ascribed to the cognitive revolution, ill or well.

Is grammar science or art? Simply, it is science, as the word order is analogous to the world order, though the former may be called culture, while the latter nature. Either is science as far as it tries to be objective. Literary criticism, traditionally regarded as art, is in fact a science as far as it aims for objectivity rather than subjectivity of which it is so often suspected.

Such a scientific hypothesis as Chomsky's innatism may or may not result in objectivity. He is as scientific as his scientific approach, however objective or subjective after all. It is a greatest mystery why men of art cite such a man of science as Chomsky more than anyone else of their kind. Do the "Two Cultures" exist any longer? --KYPark (talk) 14:44, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

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