Re: unnatural languages

On Mar 13, 3:48 pm, hru...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Herman Rubin) wrote:

BTW, algebraic notation can be applied to ordinary
language. Variables are linguistic entities, which
can substitute for anything, and have rigid rules.
Euclid could, and did, use variables for geometric
objects, but variables for anything else had not yet
been invented.

Applications of logical systems to human language were tried --
Generative Semantics, Montague grammar -- and were soon abandoned.

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