I was just thinking about

Posted October 1, 2001

I was just thinking about my next block (symbolic logic for those of you who are not in the know) and it occurred to me that world peace may be at hand. All we need to do is reduce all of mans natural languages to their symbolic form and presto mutual understanding and global peace. Or alternatively, I suppose, it could turn out that the arguments we use to justify our actions are not only unsound but also possibly not even valid. humm. Maybe it is better that we leave our natural languages in place with all of their built in murkiness because woe be it to confuse matters further with clearly understood sentences. heh.

3 Comments so far

  1. Undisclosed. on October 2nd, 2001

    What’s a quick way to convey Begriffsschrift to someone in the know? BS.

    “All we need to do is reduce all of mans natural languages to their symbolic form and presto mutual understanding and global peace.”

    You might as well say that all we need to do is grow a money tree to make everyone rich.

  2. Thom on October 6th, 2001

    I am glad you think we can all be rich. Where can I buy the seeds for that tree?

  3. Jason on October 8th, 2001

    What would you need them for? You’re already rich.

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