(December 29, 2008 at 11:26 am)leo-rcc Wrote: Then the language of their mathematics would be easier to translate than their other spoken languages, provided they are spoken of course, but that would not mean their language is not translatable by definition. It would only be harder.
Isn't this getting off track? Language is just the expression of ideas, or 'wills' of the mind. How we convey these messages isn't important, but the messages. Mathematics seems to be 'explaining' things that are already 'out there': laws maybe?
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