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PI is so good even if you don’t “understand” it all. In it he pretty much demolishes any notion that language is composed of words that refer to objects. This i
by timeagain 3y ago
PI is so good even if you don’t “understand” it all. In it he pretty much demolishes any notion that language is composed of words that refer to objects. This idea was as old as Plato and an often un-explored assumption of almost every philosopher henceforth.
Plato might ponder the nature of “love”. Wittgenstein asks, “what is love in this particular context?” Loving chocolate, loving your partner? Love between fictional characters? Was the speaker being sarcastic? Could a person born without language “love” without the framework of words and mutual understandings we get through culture, or would it be something different?
Surprisingly relevant to programming.