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Are definitions always human made? If so, do they not exist on non-human planets?
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August 29, 2013

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Stephen Maitzen
August 29, 2013 (changed August 29, 2013) Permalink

I strongly doubt that all definitions are human-made. Given the staggering number of stars that astronomers say exist, it seems highly likely that intelligent life has arisen in at least one other place -- intelligent life capable of creating languages and capable of creating explicit definitions for at least some of the items in those languages. All the definitions we currently know of are human-made, but the region of spacetime we've sampled is exceedingly small compared to what's out there.

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