One of mine favorite aphorisms:
There is no good science that is vague,
and no good poetry that is not.
-- Fernando Pessoa
Best, Julio (Stern)
>From: "Loet Leydesdorff" <loet@leydesdorff.net>
>To: "'Jerry LR Chandler'" <Jerry.LR.Chandler@Cox.net>,
><fis@listas.unizar.es>
>Subject: RE: [Fis] Meaning. Meaningfulness. Meaning of Meaningfulness.
>Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 08:43:31 +0100
>
>Dear Jerry and colleagues:
>
>The mathematical community continues to insist that the text has a single
>meaningfulness.
>So, we must semantically distinguish between the notion of communication
>with an exactness and the notion of communication that transfers some
>degree
>of meaningfulness but less than exact.
>
>
>Perhaps, one migt consider mathematical discourse as precisely the
>discourse
>which does not tolerate ambiguity, and therefore has to abstract from all
>contingency.
>
>Loet
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