Re: How long are the arms of Formalisms?


Nam Nguyen wrote:


John Jones wrote:
Do all formalisms limit themselves to conceptual, empirical and
ontological physicalism?
For the logicians here who do not understand that question but
nonetheless are happy with a semantic variant of it, I shall put the
question simply: Are all formalisms a presentation of physicalism?


And for the logician who requires a semi-formal presentation: what does
a+a = 2a display?

It displays exactly nothing! But it could reflect a lot of
interpretations from the reasoning mind!

Whatever the interpretations, are they necessarily physical ones? I say
they are.

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