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Comment author: [deleted] 13 November 2011 04:58:02PM 0 points [-]

I think the right analogy is not to building 747s out of parts, but to telling stories in different languages. The plot of "3 little pigs" has nothing to do with the English language, and the plot of Wiles's proof of Fermat's last theorem has nothing to do with set theory.