Post #2412722
2025-07-17 06:56 UTC
@Eatsbluecrayon@rollenspiel.social @jadedtwin@corteximplant.com @WhiteCatTamer@mastodon.online @altruios@mastodon.social
One would have to define what ”expressed in numbers” and ”described with numbers” mean. Is Pi a number? And if it is, does the symbol express it, or is it an expression for the inability to describe that function as a number?
But the main thing is this: Language has no fixed meaning. A symbol (like a word) is not one thing, but many. And it shifts.
Math doesn’t.
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@thelovebing@mastodon.nu 2025-07-17 07:00
@jadedtwin@corteximplant.com @WhiteCatTamer@mastodon.online @Eatsbluecrayon@rollenspiel.social @altruios@mastodon.social I’m no mathematician, but language would be something like the n-body problem. In a sense it can be expressed as numbers, but it can’t be solved.