Henri Poincare quote: Mathematicians do not study objects, but the relations between objects.
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@svat Such exercises can reveal not only whether something "is a thing" in another language, but also how something relates to other things differently in another language. How "close" or far-fetched the same analogy feels in both, can be quite telling. 1/
@svat Such exercises can reveal not only whether something "is a thing" in another language, but also how something relates to other things differently in another language. How "close" or far-fetched the same analogy feels in both, can be quite telling. 1/