Do you deny maths are formal languages?A_Seagull wrote:Ok then. I have shown how mathematics is dissimilar to a language. You claimed it's not useful to consider formal languages together, without refuting my argument. That's all you did.Dalek Prime wrote:[You may not consider it useful, as you say, to consider all the other formal languages together, but they undeniably are, including mathematics. I understand what you are saying about interest, which pure mathematics, being the most formal and general language system, can bring. But it's still of the same category, and so I can't accept the reason for treating them as separate.
Can you show how mathematics is similar to a language? (Just to say: "They undeniably are" hardly constitutes a rational philosophical argument.)
It's symbolic, with definite syntax and semantics, communicating concepts between people in a precise mannner. As the universal formal language, it defines the rules of all others. Google is your friend. Go look it up.