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Taxonomy

Taxonomy is the science of naming, describing and classifying organisms and includes all plants, animals and microorganisms of the world.

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Now mathematics is both a body of truth and a special language, a language more carefully defined and more highly abstracted than our ordinary medium of thought and expression. Also it differs from ordinary languages in this important particular: it is subject to rules of manipulation. Once a statement is cast into mathematical form it may be manipulated in accordance with these rules and every configuration of the symbols will represent facts in harmony with and dependent on those contained in the original statement. Now this comes very close to what we conceive the action of the brain structures to be in performing intellectual acts with the symbols of ordinary language. In a sense, therefore, the mathematician has been able to perfect a device through which a part of the labor of logical thought is carried on outside the central nervous system with only that supervision which is requisite to manipulate the symbols in accordance with the rules.[1]: 291

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Nonsense Sentences

A nonsense sentence has a logical, grammatical structure but no content or meaning.

Compare the following two sentences:

1. Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.

2. Furiously sleep ideas green colorless.

Neither makes any sense, but the first is grammatically correct; it has a subject and a verb, and it has adjectives and adverbs that modify the subject and verb correctly.

The second “sentence”� is pure gibberish; it is a random collection of words with no logical or grammatical structure.

Once we understand how the words in sentence 1 function grammatically, we can easily replace the words of the first sentence with sensible words and create a normal English sentence:

Tiny white mice run quickly.

Generate at least THREE proper sentences using sentence 1 as a model.

Here is the first stanza of perhaps the most famous nonsense poem in English:

’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogroves,
And the mome rathes outgrabe.
— “Jabberwocky”� by Lewis Carroll

We can turn this poem into prose by removing the line breaks and untangling the syntax:

It was billig, and the slithy toves gyred and gimbled in the wabe; the borogroves were all mimsy, and the mome rathes outgrabe.

If we identify how Carroll’s nonsense words function grammatically and substitute sensible words for them, we can create a proper English sentence:

It was cold, and the little fish twisted and tumbled in the water; the birds were all quiet, and the proud lions roared.

Create at least TWO grammatical sentences based on Carroll’s nonsense sentence.

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Notes: this is a reach to connect math and linguistics...a plus b equals c, then c minus b equals a...dogs and cats are pets...math is very precise, it cant be otherwise...language has math's tone, or some such...dogs are like cats because they are pets...dogs are not cats...it's a lot of taxonomy going on!...it's late...to be continued tomorrowmorrow...

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