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If we're trying to assign meaning to words as used by humans, that's not even in the region of correct. It's not even wrong, it's on a different planet entirely.

Predicate calculus is an entirely parallel system that only has a representation in a strict subset of human language. A reverse mapping is hopeless and misguided.

I feel like this line of thought, that you can box up words with really concrete meanings that you can then reason about with logic systems is a kind of trap for people who've spent too much time in an analytic frame of the world. It's one where the smarter you are, the further down the road you can get without realising it's a dead end. At best, such a system could only augment.



>If we're trying to assign meaning to words as used by humans, that's not even in the region of correct. It's not even wrong, it's on a different planet entirely.

It will totally be fine for 99% of applications. Marginal returns.




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