Re: Idle Thoughts

Captain Jake wrote:

>
> "IanH" <none@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:430c86e2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > John Jacobson aka Captain Jake wrote:
> >> There is no proof, just disproof. All mathematical "proofs" are
> just >> tautologies, since mathematics is simply a language, nothing
> more. >> Granted, it is a highly useful, even indispensable,
> language, but it >> is just a language in the end.
> >
> > But to reduce mathematics to "simply a language, nothing more"
> > seems to me at best just a glib debating point.
> >
>
> http://www.cut-the-knot.org/language/MathIsLanguage.shtml


I think you've taken the metaphor these people are using and stretched
it just a wee bit too far, but hey - that's your prerogative.

> And, yes, I am aware there is ano pposing point of view to my own:
> http://www.geocities.com/agihard/mohl/mohl_language_function.html

Would be dull if we all thought the same - think what it would do to
the traffic in here <g>
.

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