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If "the aim of science is, on the one hand, a comprehension, as complete as possible, of the connection between the sense experiences in their totality, and, on the other hand, the accomplishment of this aim by the use of a minimum of primary concepts and relations,"1 as Einstein (1936: 293) puts it, and if generative grammar is that part of science whose aim consists of a comprehension of the connection between the sense experiences as reflections of the language faculty, it follows that one of our tasks is to identify what the relevant sense experiences are; cf. Chomsky 1955/1975: 37.
1 The emphases are as in the original.
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