Re: Recent anti-semantic advances in Mathematics


Daryl McCullough wrote:

Mathematical terms have not meant the same thing as their natural
language origins for some time. "Derivative", "integral", "field",
"real", "complex", "prime", "group". None of those words mean the
same thing to a mathematician as they do to a non-mathematician.
So what?

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Daryl McCullough
Ithaca, NY

You are promoting an incommensurable, a private language. But you do
not go far enough. Ultimately, you must abandon all pretence to
technical 'meaning' and instead promote mere 'shorthand', for only
meaning is a communicable.

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