(May 24, 2018 at 12:32 pm)robvalue Wrote: No reason. We assign meaning to the symbols. Whether or not the system you come up with is of any practical use is another matter.
Good luck trying to get your bank to assign a different meaning to the numbers on your credit card statements. Or maybe you'd like to argue that the laws of physics are linguistic conventions while stepping out of a 12th story window.
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