Author: galathaeagalathaea Date: Aug 13, 2008 00:59
let me try anew
formalism was not created in the twentieth century
nor did it arise spontaneously in the nineteenth century
or blossom in the eighteenth
or any such recent history
the fact that language is possible at all
is the foundations of formalism
and this goes back hundreds of thousands of years
all language is based on formal negotiations
exchanging information
the pointing metaphor goes well into our great ape ancestry
and aparently is found in many animals
(several pack marine animals to many land animals)
so?
well logic isn't something
born when they created the word "axiomatic"
the structure of language itself is built of the primitives
with which all logical calculi are constructed
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