N. Chomsky and L. Wittgenstein on the nature of language and thought

Wittgenstein are discussed in this article. On the analysis of the conceptions the author of the article draws the conclusion about episte-mological character of cognitive researches in general. It is asserted that until naturalistic theory investigates facts of objective world of the nature it stays on the position of scientific realism. Scientific realism asserts existence of objective reality and a possibility of knowledge of it. But since naturalistic researches begin consideration of cognitive processes of the human being as a knowledge subject they represent anti-realistic position. In the framework of the position naturalistic researches formulate skeptic theses on cognitive capacities of the human being.

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