Ooops. Meant to reply to this yesterday. I agree that mathematics is a language and, in so far as English exists math also exists.
But you can lie with language, or simply make stuff up. And in that sense, neither English nor mathematics are real. I mean, there's no larger Truth to language, English or Math. At best, they're a reflection of reality, not reality themselves.
You could make some arguments about the interactivity of language and life, like how learning a language changes the way people think. And in that sense they're real, too. I really only meant exist on a certain level. Loose language. My bad.
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Date: 2006-10-27 08:07 pm (UTC)But you can lie with language, or simply make stuff up. And in that sense, neither English nor mathematics are real. I mean, there's no larger Truth to language, English or Math. At best, they're a reflection of reality, not reality themselves.
You could make some arguments about the interactivity of language and life, like how learning a language changes the way people think. And in that sense they're real, too. I really only meant exist on a certain level. Loose language. My bad.