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Originally Posted by Qfwfq
...Like any language, German, Hindi etc... it can be used to represent facts about reality....
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From Buckminster Fuller's
Synergetics:
http://www.rwgrayprojects.com/synerg...s12/p0000.html
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Tobias Dantzig, author of Number: The Language of Science,
Has traced the etymological history
Of the names for the numbers
In all the known languages of the Earth.
He finds the names for numbers all classifiable
As amongst the "oldest" known words....
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semantics is not always just pedantic quibbling. ~ douglas r. hofstadter
