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> Curiously, this review (and perhaps the book being reviewed?) makes no mention of the model of mathematics as a language. This seems to be a common idea among
by diogenes4 3y ago
> Curiously, this review (and perhaps the book being reviewed?) makes no mention of the model of mathematics as a language. This seems to be a common idea among working mathematicians and physicists[1,2], and it is rather clear that the question of reality of a language is ill-formed.
Sorry, if this isn't clear to everyone, why does this result in the rejection of mathematics as a language rather than the rejection of the question of the realism of mathematics? The latter seems much easier with no downsides (that I can see), whereas the rejection of mathematics as a language has many downsides.
- fiforpg 3y agoOf course, I do think of math as a (meta)language. Maybe my phrasing does not convey that well. So much for using natural language instead of math... ;)