Epstein Secrets

time I met Carnap. He couldn't understand why people talked languages, with all their irregularities and complexity. Why doesn't everyone just talk Esperanto (which, he didn't realize, just uses standard Romance grammar with very minor changes)? Or better, why don't we all talk predicate calculus? Frege,

(which, he didn't realize, just uses standard Romance grammar with very minor changes)? Or better, why don't we all talk predicate calculus? Frege, Tarski, and others also thought that human language wasn't worth studying. One can even construct paradoxes in it. Quite a departure from a rich tradition

time I met Carnap. He couldn't understand why people talked languages, with all their irregularities and complexity. Why doesn't everyone just talk Esperanto (which, he didn't realize, just uses standard Romance grammar with very minor changes)? Or better, why don't we all talk predicate calculus? Frege,

(which, he didn't realize, just uses standard Romance grammar with very minor changes)? Or better, why don't we all talk predicate calculus? Frege, Tarski, and others also thought that human language wasn't worth studying. One can even construct paradoxes in it. Quite a departure from a rich tradition

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