Introducing mathematical notation into philosophy gives, not the firm foundation, but some firm foundation, upon which to argue. Otherwise a whole lot of shite

Introducing mathematical notation into philosophy gives, not the firm foundation, but some firm foundation, upon which to argue. Otherwise a whole lot of shite is spewed and no progress is made. In its are sentences of long words that serve to emote, cajole and frankly baffle rather than enlighten. There's some of it here but it's not the worst. What I can't accept is stuff like " has been to persuade many philosophers that the rich panoply of entities the world throws at us can be reduced to individuals and sets of various sorts, for example sets as properties, sets of ordered tuples as relations, sets of possible worlds as propositions, and so on and so forth. It is hard to know where to start in revealing the scope of the damage caused to ontology by the thoughtless or supposedly scientifically economic reduction of various entities to sets" To model something you need to simplify it. What's he suggesting instead? Other oddities " Richmond Thomason notes that Montague saw grammar as a branch of mathematics and not (as in Chomsky) of psychology". Pretty sure Chomsky's hierarchy of grammars, types 3 to 0, are considered by him as mathematical, not psychological. Not my area but I'm not convinced it's worth digging into this paper. (edit) Further down we get to the bullshit. The emotive crap: "tiresome to continue citing further absurdities in philosophy resulting from the over-zealous application" so instead we replace defined set theoretic terms with english, delights such as, replacing <x,y> with x followed by y; x and y in that order. Ha ha ha now explain what logical implication means without being formal. (edit: and then show me some symbol manipulation using it, without the symbols) Not happening. I do understand the terminology is intimidating, and there's much to be said for annotating the set-theoretic with plain english as he suggests but to replace it... that would be a massive step backwards.