RE: Fwd: SUO Quo Vadis
John,
> However, I agree that there are many things that cannot be
> described in any finite sentence in any language that can be
> written in a finite alphabet. Only a countable subset of
> the real numbers, for example, are describable.
Of course this depends on what "describe" means. The phrase "the real
numbers" describes all the real numbers, not just a countable subset. The
meaning of the phrase "the real numbers" can be further defined or described
with a finite phrase such as "the set of all numbers that have an unending
sequence of digits to the right of the decimal point".
So, we may need some description of "describes", some definition of
"define"...
Phil Jackson