In its specialized format as the infrastructure of all theoretical structurations of the world, language is essentially formal. The significance of formal languages lies in their capacity for what Catarina Dutilh Novaes terms ‘desemantifica…[^49]: The term ‘universe of discourse’ originates from Augustus De Morgan’s phrase universe of a proposition specifically meaning ‘the whole of some definite category of things which are under discussion’ but not at all ‘the totality of al…
Noam Chomsky
scientist · 4 mentions across 3 readings
In this course
I cannot reliably identify Chomsky's actual role in this course from these excerpts—they appear to discuss formal language, semantics, and universes of discourse without clearly attributing core arguments to him. The excerpts seem to reference De Morgan, Dutilh Novaes, and Bateson, but Chomsky's presence is unclear or may be indirect. To write accurate notes on his significance to "Pandaemonium Architecture 6.0," I'd need excerpts where his work is more directly engaged.
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