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The conception here is that one's layered abstractions is basically an informal mathematics... which is formally structured... which is a formal grammar. It's your internal language, using internal symbols instead of English names.

Remember in CS theory, a language is just a set of strings. If you think in pictures that is STILL a language if your pictures are structured.

So I'm really handwaving the above just to suggest that it all depends on the assumptions that each expert is making in elucidating this debate which has a long history.

parent calf 2 years ago

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