Re: dhw--Epistemological Framework (Humans)

by xeno6696 @, Sonoran Desert, Thursday, January 20, 2011, 22:15 (4863 days ago) @ David Turell


> > EVERY human language attempts to model reality in some way, math just happens to be a highly precise language.
> > 
> > So I really, truly--do not understand the amazement you and the author have for human use of mathematics. I don't see you praising english for its ability to specify subject and object!
> 
> Actually I love the English language and I am appalled at how it is misused by today's high school students. The English language has over 550,000 words and is the most precise language invented. There is a modifier for every nuance of meaning. Think of the poor Israelis who started out to revive Hebrew with a base of 10,000 words taken from the Bible! I've got some books on the history of the English language. I always praise it!-lol... Well I won't rest my case, I think you know what I was driving at, lol. I wrote a new thread in response to this topic. I'm learning how to build programming languages and it's forcing me to explore this topic alot... and I might have caught a snag in your thinking. I await your response!

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\"Why is it, Master, that ascetics fight with ascetics?\"

\"It is, brahmin, because of attachment to views, adherence to views, fixation on views, addiction to views, obsession with views, holding firmly to views that ascetics fight with ascetics.\"


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