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> Well, calculus is a bunch of logic propositions and it explains physics pretty well.

I mean, it is true that you can construct a Turing machine using predicate logic, and thus all computer algorithms can be expressed in this way, but what matters is the relevant level of abstraction, and thinking about things using predicate logic is not always the best.




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