Phil Henshaw wrote: > My guess is that the reason you > can come up with exceptions for any abstract category assignment is that > you're interested in how nature is both highly orderly and indefinable. > Design, prescriptive language, and abstract categories are for those that aren't doing new things. Evolution, or search, is for dealing with new things. I see no problem with having dozens of evolved languages to describe different sorts of things, but perhaps retrospectively some of them are really the same and worth abstracting and compressing.
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