RE: SUO: Re: World's largest individual organism
John Sowa said:
> ... You can't represent any physical object without making some
choices for some purpose. That choice doesn't have to go
into the axioms at the lowest level, but it does have to go
into the metalevel. The only question is whether that metalevel
is an English comment that can only be understood by humans
or whether it is stated in some formal language that the
Kn. based system can also understand.
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Precisely. So far as I can tell, noone has argued that we should do the latter,
it has only been suggested as an option. We all seem to agree that it is
important to be clear at least in English, about what our purposes are.
Mike