‘The acceptance or rejection of abstract linguistic forms, just as the acceptance or rejection of any other linguistic forms in any branch of science, will finally be decided by their efficiency as instruments, the ratio of the results achieved to the amount and complexity of the efforts required.’ (Carnap)
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This! I’ll save this quote for later, thank you!
My guess is this arises out of necessity. There’s always going to be a cutoff where the ratio of complexity to results will cause a mental tool to be discarded so long as one with a lower ratio exists
