John (01)
How about a language that uses synsets instead of words?
Do you know if anyone has researched that? (02)
A synset is an equivalence class, similar to your
definition of proposition. (03)
Dick McCullough
http://mkrmke.org (04)
----- Original Message -----
From: "John F. Sowa" <sowa@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> The simple reason is that mathematics of any kind (including symbolic
> logic) makes statements with sharp, absolute criteria of precision.
> (Even fuzzy logic and probability theory make precise statements
> about fuzziness and probabilities.) In the initial unsettled stages
> of research, such precision is impossible. It's also impossible to
> quantify the exact amount of fuzziness. That's why ordinary language
> is far better suited to the *development* of a theory than to the
> final statement of the theory.
> (05)
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