(March 29, 2019 at 2:58 pm)Acrobat Wrote:(March 29, 2019 at 2:43 pm)Peebo-Thuhlu Wrote: At work.
*Raises appendage*
Uhm.... but aren't numbers (And numbering systems) , like other 'Languages' just subjective?
Such that.... when those that use a numbering or language system die out completely... then doesn't the systems they agreed upon also cease to exist?
To the extent that, effectivly, they are nonexistent?
Heck, did they even exist before/until said societies/cultures just happened to agree/reach a concensus on their values/meanings in the first place?
Hope my ideas are grokkable by others.
If a dog takes two bones into the woods, and no one is around to count them, or give each bone the symbol of 1, and the symbol of 2, or "two", when combined. Does this mean he didn't take two bones into the woods?
Yes... but you're using the mutually agreed upon terms/symbols just to type that concept, no?
Would you be able to make heads or tails out of the above if it were expressed in, say, Cuniform B for example?
Now, I'm not saying certain concepts can't be ubiquitous.....
But the methods of expressing said concepts certainly are not.