[MD] All the way down

[Matt Kundert]

I doubt the utility of math to, say, the understanding of what 
rationality is in Brandom's Making It Explicit.  The mystery Brandom 
dispels there wasn't generated by sorting through the varying uses 
of words.

> Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 22:18:15 -0800
> From: ununoctiums at gmail.com
> To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
> Subject: Re: [MD] All the way down
> 
> Hi Matt,
> 
> I read yesterday in the Wall Street Journal that now that Google has
> about 15 million books scanned in, we can really start to use math and
> statistics to understand language in a much broader sense.  Perhaps
> the drift of humanity can be better understood once we have all the
> written publications from the last 2,500 years fully integrated, and
> susceptible to interrogation through a variety of counting techniques.
>  Won't be such a mystery after that.  It is often useful to get the
> whole perspective rather than to get lost in the trees.
> 
> Cheers,
> Mark