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by tr352 2085 days ago
Not sure we’re talking about the same thing here. I was replying to your claim that nothing in philosophy (apart from mathematics) can be formalized. The role of logic is not to solve the metaphysical problem of infinite regress.
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Logic itself is a formalism.

Subject to all the constraints of formal language theory/linguistics.

It fails to address the symbol-grounding problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbol_grounding_problem