“The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name” (Confucius); “magic consists in this, the true naming of a thing.” (LeGuin)
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@vgr A true name seems sort of like the number of an algorithm for Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem: it holds the whole essence. -
@polyparadigm Doesn't the Godel number of a proposition depend on the specific encoding? - 3 more replies
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@vgr ah ! Feynman's "map of a cat" http://nuit-blanche.blogspot.fr/2014/09/sunday-morning-inisght-escaping.html … -
@IgorCarron@vgr Contra-Feynman, it's hard to communicate understanding without names. Having a name is half the understanding. - 4 more replies
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@vgr I've been thinking a bit about names recently. I think the purpose of names is to make thinking easier -
@vgr that is to say, it's much more convenient to affix knowledge to a name, than to arbitrary amounts of of structure - 2 more replies
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