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[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

The universe is eminently describable with language - thats the whole point of mathematics.

[–] kozy138@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Okay. Describe a flower using mathematics. It better entail every detail of the flower and all of its virtues.

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Oh you seem fun. The vast body of mathematics describes flowers, from growth patterns to genetic structure to the effect it has on human neurology when observing the colorful patterns made by them. However I am curious; please explain what a virtue is!

[–] Viceversa@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's not: see Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems.

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

I am at a loss as to what they have to do with this, do you mean to say that the universe is not exhaustively describable?