Re: A question of semantics

> In other words, a naturalistic language using different divisions of the
> world, not inherently more logical than other natural languages?  ...
No, because such differences of division are a standard property fof
natural languages.  What I am asking about is concepts that are not
easily (or just plain not) expressible in any natural language.  I.e.
concepts that cannot be thought by a purely verbal thinker.

There are some such concepts in mathematics, and it is one of the
reasons that mathematics is so hard for some people to learn.  But
I am more interested in concepts that are neither in any natural
language nor in any existing mathematics.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren,
University of Cambridge Computing Service,
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