11. ...Our language can be regarded as an ancient city: a maze of little streets and squares, of old and new houses, of houses with extensions from various periods, and all this surrounded by a multitude of new suburbs with straight and regular streets and uniform houses.

L.W. Phil. Inv. 4ed. p. 11
A street is an expression made of houses and ( Read more... )

Probably it's not new, but the idea that the reality (whatever it means) can be described completely in words, music, formulas, protein codes, etc. implies that the reality is a free monoid "implemented by nature" and we have a functor that maps the reality to words, music, formulas, etc ( Read more... )

Going back to the conversation about forgetful functors.

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy on Model Theory:
Sometimes we write or speak a sentence S that expresses nothing either true or false, because some crucial information is missing about what the words mean. If we go on to add this information, so that S comes to express a true or false ( Read more... )