THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE CRISIS OF LINGUISTIC VALIDITY IN ARABIC LANGUAGE STUDIES
Keywords:
Epistemology of AI, Linguistic Validity, Large Language Models, Arabic Language, Epistemological HallucinationAbstract
Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved demonstrable syntactic competence, yet this article argues that their outputs remain epistemologically deficient across three critical dimensions: semantic adequacy, pragmatic legitimacy, and epistemic accountability. Drawing on Wittgenstein, Chomsky, Searle, and Goldman, this study introduces a Four-Dimensional Linguistic Validity Model and the concept of epistemological hallucination to analyze AI outputs in Arabic language studies. The findings establish that AI’s formal-linguistic strength coexists with structural limitations irreducible by scale, particularly given the civilizational depth of Arabic as an epistemic language.
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