Well yeah take enough shrooms and everything is suddenly exposed as the artificial construct that it is. But we don’t have time to wake up and reinvent language every morning ;)
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kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks agoArguably, there is no objective truth, since the symbols and rules of mathematics are assigned arbitrarily, and are basically a social contract, just like language!
…Wait, that means there’s no objective meaning of “objective”, crap
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SmartmanApps@programming.dev 5 days ago
Yes there is, just look in Maths textbooks
The signs are, the rules aren’t.
Nope and nope. It’s a tool for calculating things, nothing like a language at all.
There is, in a dictionary, just like the rules of Maths are in Maths textbooks