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This is a good point, but natural language has this problem to an even greater degree. What object does the word "consciousness" refer to? "Unicorn"? What makes
by ilyagr 3y ago
This is a good point, but natural language has this problem to an even greater degree. What object does the word "consciousness" refer to? "Unicorn"? What makes a ship a ship? What if we include toy ships and drawn ships?
"What can math describe" is an easier question than "what is reality?" or "what is the nature of all concepts a human mind can conceive of or be interested in?". Not that it's an easy question either.
- mr_toad 3y agoBut we don’t expect natural language to be as precise and consistent as Maths. You could argue that maths was invented because natural language was too vague.