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It's easily argued that languages are subsets of math.


Easily? Not sure. But perhaps it's a linguistic version of the Skolem paradox. Looks like Hilary Putnam had some things to say on that..


Before Godel, yeah. Many in math departments would like to believe that claim but would not accept it when pressed.


Left as an exercise for the reader.


and both are instances / processes of symbolic composition.




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