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<blockquote data-quote="Rodney Mulraney" data-source="post: 7219989" data-attributes="member: 6904821"><p>Ok I get my comment maybe a little "technical" for some people to easily understand. </p><p></p><p>Formal langauge is a specific term though, I don't mean that like how we use "formal" in everyday language, like formal dress/manner, or more or less formal, in that way. A formal language is a special type of construct, like first order logic or mathematics, or programming languages; they are precise special kinds of ways of making a "language"; The 5e rulebooks are definitely not written in any kind of "formal language"... </p><p></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_language" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_language</a></p><p></p><p>Anyway that comment was referencing the comment it references, it completely and utterly refutes the comment it refers to... However it is a bit off topic for me write pages of educational material that would be necessary for anyone to understand it. I thought I wrote that comment in a way that most people could easily grok the basic gist of it, but yeah, no worries.</p><p></p><p>EDIT: incidentally, if the rulebooks were written in a formal language, there would be no argument about the rules at all, everything stated in it would be an axiom (100% true) or a theorem (100% true and provably so). And anything that anyone claims the rules are saying would be a theorem of the system as well, provable in the system. There would be no confusion at all. The problem is, you would need a degree to be able to read it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rodney Mulraney, post: 7219989, member: 6904821"] Ok I get my comment maybe a little "technical" for some people to easily understand. Formal langauge is a specific term though, I don't mean that like how we use "formal" in everyday language, like formal dress/manner, or more or less formal, in that way. A formal language is a special type of construct, like first order logic or mathematics, or programming languages; they are precise special kinds of ways of making a "language"; The 5e rulebooks are definitely not written in any kind of "formal language"... [URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_language[/URL] Anyway that comment was referencing the comment it references, it completely and utterly refutes the comment it refers to... However it is a bit off topic for me write pages of educational material that would be necessary for anyone to understand it. I thought I wrote that comment in a way that most people could easily grok the basic gist of it, but yeah, no worries. EDIT: incidentally, if the rulebooks were written in a formal language, there would be no argument about the rules at all, everything stated in it would be an axiom (100% true) or a theorem (100% true and provably so). And anything that anyone claims the rules are saying would be a theorem of the system as well, provable in the system. There would be no confusion at all. The problem is, you would need a degree to be able to read it. [/QUOTE]
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