Some remarks on pragmatics in the language of mathematics: Comments to the paper “At Least One Black Sheep: Pragmatics and Mathematical Language” by Luca San Mauro, Marco Ruffino and Giorgio Venturi

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I agree wholeheartedly with the authors of “At Least One Black Sheep: Pragmatics and Mathematical Language” on their main thesis that the language of mathematics is permeated by phenomena that belong to pragmatics. I also agree with what they take to be the opposite view, which is presented in Mohan Ganesalingam's monograph The Language of Mathematics (2013). I think that the conflict is to a large extent terminological and has to do with what is meant by pragmatics.