@ K. 2001 04 13
So many “things” and their attributes prove to be nothing but artifacts of language. “To Infinity,” for example.
1, 2, 3 … and so on to infinity. We may think of infinity as a number, but if so, it is not a number as 1 or 2 or 3 are numbers. e and pi are numbers. They too are not like 1 or 2. Neither are they like infinity.
You can go to high school. You can go to Macy’s, to the kitchen … But even a number series doesn’t “go to infinity” as though infinity where a place. A place can be arrived at; infinity can’t.
Oh, we all know that. But do we? Not while we’re under the thrall of a natural language.
Language is like kleptocracy. It can’t imagine not being in charge.
This subject is of the greatest importance to Macroinformation. (With my domain of that name down (censored, a domino fallen under my AgainstHierarchy.org) see my blog of that name.)
