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The crux of Wittgenstein can be summed up thus (and I am totally stealing this from Jean-Yves Girard).

It's not about the rules of logic, it's about the logic of rules [1]

The axioms and deductive rules of ALL formal languages are invented/designed by humans, not discovered, so it begs the question: Who invents the rules and why?

Logic (when seen as a formal language itself) is a subset of Programming Language Theory [2]

1. https://doi.org/10.1017/S096012950100336X

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_language_theory

parent ukj 6 years ago

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