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| Feb 26, 2020 at 8:19 | comment | added | vsz | @MatthewMartin : things that are "amusing nonsense" for you, are valuable cultural and artistic treasures for others. Just because poetry and music don't typically encode scientific data, does it mean we should ban poetry and ban music (or let them die), because they only contain "nonsense" ?? | |
| Mar 5, 2012 at 15:43 | comment | added | MatthewMartin | This answer goes beyond just the value for individual culture. Culture can encode (from a scientific standpoint) amusing nonsense, like the names of angels and types of unicorns. This answer is talking about the possibility of languages encoding knowledge, like the properties of the plant "feverfew" are encoded into the word. Algonquin languages were an even better example of this because names of plants were made up of several descriptive morphological parts, some of which may have been folk science, some nonsense, some trivial observations. | |
| Mar 3, 2012 at 18:49 | comment | added | Bogdan Lataianu | +1 good point, language is a form of culture in my opinion | |
| Mar 3, 2012 at 11:39 | history | answered | kaleissin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |