Stephen Wolfram

It's a whole thing.

But the word hate, the documentation for that word

Well, there isn't a standard documentation for that word, so to speak.

It's a complicated thing defined by kind of how we use it.

If it wasn't for the fact that we were using language, I mean, so what is language at some level?

Language is a way of packaging thoughts so that we can communicate them to another mind.

Right, so I think the answer to that is that what one can do in computational language is make a specific definition.

And if you have a complicated word, like let's say the word eat, okay?

It's a simple word.

It's, you know, animals eat things, whatever else.

But, you know, you do programming.

You say, this function eats arguments, which is sort of poetically similar to the animal eating things.

But if you start to say, well, what are the implications of, you know, the function eating something?

You know, can the function be poisoned?

Well, maybe it can, actually.

But, you know, if there's a type mismatch or something in some language.

But, you know, in what...

how far does that analogy go?

And it's just an analogy.

Whereas if you use the word eat in a computational language level, you would define there isn't a thing which you anchor to the kind of natural language concept eat, but it is now some precise definition of that that then you can compute things from.