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118 Ireneusz Bobrowski *** Perhaps it is similar in case of each empirical science, that after the period when new theories are falsified comes the time for constructivist thinking. Various ideas that occur to scientists occupied with falsification bring out the feeling of dis- content with the existing hypotheses; at the same time the (very same) ideas may enable them to move into new, yet unexplored dimensions. This could explain why Chomsky shifted the focus of his interest onto the issues connected with the nature of the human mind, issues that previously were only secondary. Perhaps in the fu- ture, thanks to glotto-didactics3, empirical cognitive science and neurolinguistics, or biolinguistics hypotheses concerning relations between modules of thought and language may gain a status that would enable them to be empirically falsified. Cur- rently, however, I would not venture ascribing them such status. References Bobrowski, I. (1993): J�zykoznawstwo racjonalne. Z zagadnie� teorii j�zykoznawczej i metodologii opisów gramatycznych. Kraków. Bobrowski, I. (1998): Zaproszenie do j�zykoznawstwa. Kraków. Chomsky, N. (1957): Syntactic Structures. The Hague. Chomsky, N. (1981): Lectures on Government and Binding. Dordrecht. Chomsky, N. (1982): Some Concepts and Consequences of the Theory of Government and Binding. Chomsky, N. (1995): The Minimalist Programm. Hartmann, N. (1994): My�l filozoficzna i jej historia. Systematyczna autoprezentacja. Toru�. Grucza, F. (1983): Zagadnienia metalingwistyki. Lingwistyka – jej przedmiot, lingwistyka stosowana. Warszawa. Popper, K. (1959): The Logic of Scientific Discovery. London. Stalmaszczyk, P. (2006): Koncepcje „j�zyka” i „gramatyki” w gramatyce generatywnej i semantyce...