What’s the difference between the two definition when in the end they do the same thing?
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Let’s say we ripped up all the books and did away with all knowledge, back to cave life with no written word, not even spoken language. We genuinely do this. The next generation grows up like cavemen. Eventually, life would civilize again, and eventually we get back to where we are now. The question is: what are we teaching in schools?
Languages would all be different, because they’re really just a matter of arbitrary convention. But one plus one would still equal two, and the ratio between a square and circle would still be that oddly specific value we know as pi, even if we used different words and symbols to express all of these concepts.
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