Re: _Verum Et Factum Convertuntur_ (or: Surprised By Syntax)

Greg wrote: 
Des Small wrote:

Harlan Messinger <hmessinger.removethis@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:


Herman Rubin wrote:

When you have seen the collections of characters produced by
college students claiming to be reasonably intelligent written
communications, or heard the questions which are not intelligible
because the words have nothing to do with any remotely reasonable
understanding of the topic, youn will not take that position.


I'm starting to gather that you're deaf and signless and that to you
written language is the sum and substance of language.


It seems that langwidge, for Herman, properly aspires to the condition
of mathematics.


As I read postings in this thread, I keep trying to deduce what the
posters think the difference is between natural language and
mathematics.

Well, mathematics isn't language, so there's one substantial difference. Comparing natural language to mathematics is like comparing French to Poland.

And then there's Herman's lament that natural language isn't as precise as mathematics (by which, yes, I understand him to mean "mathematical representation"). Well, that *is* a *difference* between them, isn't it? Natural language relies on human psychology for interpretation. Mathematical representation doesn't.
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