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> Swift’s point was that language is not a formal system that represents human thought, but a messy and ambiguous form of expression. Yep even the greatest min
by sublinear 3y ago
> Swift’s point was that language is not a formal system that represents human thought, but a messy and ambiguous form of expression.
Yep even the greatest minds are susceptible to false dichotomy. We now have linguistics and computer science, yet some aspects of thought remain forever intractably messy.