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by dfischer 2090 days ago
Precisely. Language under the context that it is a restricted set of abstractions used to communicate a set of consistencies.

Language itself is an exclusive operation on the possible coordinates of anything within a universe.

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Well, if we're allowed to just redefine the terms, you can make and prove whatever claim you wish, but its unsatisfying and ultimately pointless. I'm not sure why you think the above (which, I'm sorry, parses as gibberish for me) is useful given my assertion that mathematics is not the same species of thing as human language, as opposed to whatever the thing you're describing above is.