The Power of Language

Mathematics is essentially a language or science of short cuts to some degree, you say. So can you talk about what you mean by one example you use in the book? Absolutely. Because you could have had a new word for every single different type of chair there is. I'm sitting in the moment on a swivel chair on wheels, but it could be a little stool, which we also would catecrize, perhaps as a chair ase wickenstein talks already about this power of language.