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Old 05-06-2015, 10:26 AM
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Originally Posted by yusufcam View Post
you mean like words can only be symbols (abstractions to a degree)? suppose thats why science likes maths.
Exactly so.
Math is the only language that can consistently describe the reality.
Words are not good enough because in most cases they do not have defined meaninings and defined relationships between themselves ("What poet meant to say with those words" were my favourite expression to describe this situation).
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