Re: unnatural languages
- From: "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 14 Mar 2007 20:33:28 -0700
On Mar 14, 8:10 pm, LEE Sau Dan <dan...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
The mathematicians have successfully built natural numbers from sets.
But they don't intend to teach such theories to 3-year-olds. Nor do
they expect laymen to understand such constructions.
Nor, when the children have been exposed to all that irrelevant rot,
will they be able to add up the prices of the items in their grocery
cart.
.
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