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Re: Math: Did we discover or create it?
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Originally Posted by CraigD
This difficulty is one of the key observations of the early 20th century discipline of General Semantics. Although GS is a complicated discipline, it’s easy to summarize how it addresses the problem of the same word used for 2 different things: it “subscripts” them. Thus, in GS, we’d write:
"Math is a language 1";
"French is a language 2",
and keep adding to our table of precise definitions of the words usage as new and distinct ones are used. |
It is a privilege to meet someone cogent of General Semantics. Thank you. Your solution is perfect, after adding:
language 1 is NOT equal to language 2
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