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user-inactivated · 3146 days ago · link · · parent · post: An Axiomatic Approach to Algebra and Other Aspects of Life
I wonder if this could be applied to linguistics. Mathematics and natural sciences have structure in them that you can easily follow, given similar rigidness to what the blog post describes. Linguistics is about a subject that's in constant change, miserable in size as it may be to an observer; the only "solid" parts about it are grammar and phonetics, and even then...