All languages contain ideas about the make up of reality.

By 1 digory on November 02, 2008

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2 tenebrus who hasn't voted, says

Even Pascal, C++, Java, etc... ?

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4 Logical Dog who hasn't voted, says

Probably natural languages tend to, but it would almost certainly be possible to construct a small artificial language that would be "about" nothing other than the relationship between symbols.

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1 digory who agreed, says

those symbols would exist and would relate in certain ways, so no

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