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It would be like saying you can't have high level languages because assembly have only a few limited combinations of registers. You can always abstract things away.

In fact, you are making the assumption that there is no more generalist logical concepts we can discover that can abstract or merge what now appears to be conflicting paradigms.

I imagine people said that to Argand. Nah, you can't do that sqrt(-1) thing, you'll run into contradictions.

Given that we have been at the task for less than a century, which is like 1 minute of human history, I'm not inclined to such categorical rejection of the possibility.



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