Propositions are spooks, like kobolds or banshees. No one has ever captured one on camera, or in a zoo. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/propositions/ …
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Propositions could only work if the world were perfectly tidy. But it’s inherently nebulous; so purpose-dependent language is efficacious!
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Is that why so many programs struggle with accurate language comprehension? Because language depends on modeling the world?
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Propositions are the pretentious bourgeoisie of meaning, desperate to hide their origins in context, which sounds lower class.
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Which I guess makes statements of actual mathematics the aristocracy that they are pretending to.
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Words are ambiguous! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indeterminacy_of_translation …
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Yeah, the “bad behavior” of language is both in syntax and world-meanings.
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