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names have to be finite in length. i think that's pretty obvious
by nofriend 23d ago
names have to be finite in length. i think that's pretty obvious
- goodmythical 22d agoI don't see how that's any more obvious than the suspicious claim that numbers can have only so many digits.
- nofriend 22d agoA number is not in the first place its digit sequence. A number like pi is in the first place the ratio of a circle's diameter and its circumference, and only incidentally a certain (infinite) decimal expansion. A name is in the first place something you say, hence the thing you say has to be (at least theoretically) sayable.