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PaleoEuropean
Simple question, feel free to leave a complex reply.
A terrorist can't be defined objectively why do think Ludwig Wittgenstein was obsessed with language ?
The language in which people describe the different sorts of things there are in the world is vastly more primitive and more conservative than the size (mathematical) languages which have been multiplied to cope with the increasing precision of man’s control over nature. In the world which is open to public inspection, the world of inorganic and organic nature, man was not compelled to enlarge the scope of language to describe any new sorts of phenomena between 2000 BC and the researches of Michael Faraday and Hertz, the father of radio.
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The language of mathematics differs from that of everyday life, because it is essentially a rationally planned language. The languages of size have no place for private sentiment, either of the individual or of the nation. They are international languages like the binomial nomenclature of natural history. In dealing with the immense complexity of his social life man has not yet begun to apply inventiveness to the rational planning of ordinary language when describing different kinds of institutions and human behaviour. The language of everyday life is clogged with sentiment, and the science of human nature has not advanced so far that we can describe individual sentiment in a clear way -Lancelot Hogben
Truth only exists at the end of a correct chain of mathematical argument.
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