The Effect of Hierarchy on the Encoding of Meaning.

Abstract Scientists ca employ either or both of two languages when they describe the results of observation and experiment. These two languages are mathematics and ordinary natural language. The use we make of these is not capricious nor is it not arbitrary. We use the language most appropriate to the task at hand and as we examine the kinds of subjects involved in medicine, it becomes clear which of these languages is the proper one at a given time.