FOM: Tennant's re-invention of the numbers

Vaughan Pratt pratt at cs.Stanford.EDU
Mon Feb 2 16:47:51 EST 1998


>Concepts and rules are public and communicable: at least
>inter-subjective, and perhaps even objective in a yet stronger sense than
>"inter-subjective".

The communicability of a new concept is inversely proportional to its
technical complexity.  I only came to appreciate this quite recently.

Vaughan Pratt



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