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https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2014/03/boundaries-and-subtleties-the-mysterious-power-of-naming-in-human-cognition.html https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksd
by hargup 1mo ago
https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2014/03/boundaries-and-subtleties-the-mysterious-power-of-naming-in-human-cognition.html https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2014/03/boundaries-and... This is a beautiful article on the subject.
To prove that there are unnamable concepts, he uses cantor's diagonal argument. There are countably infinite names. Any subset of these names is a concept, which is same as the powerset of the set of names, and through cantor's diagonal argument, there are uncountably infinite concepts, most which are not namable.
Yes you can take a specific concept, and name it, but there are uncountably infinitely many, so even with infinite time, you cannot name them all.
- rramadass 1mo agoCountable and Uncountable Infinities - https://philosophicaltreasures.com/countable-and-uncountable-infinities/ https://philosophicaltreasures.com/countable-and-uncountable...
- itemize123 1mo agoi think there must be a scheme of naming that is uncountably infinite too.
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