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There is a notion of meaning in that it encodes possibility. A situation with lots of future possibilities has meaning. A dead-end situation has little or no meaning: stagnation, death, ...

If the formal/syntactic appearance is how leads to new possibilities involving more formal/syntactic appearances, then that is its meaning.

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Are you suggesting that some people hold the normative position, “One ought prefer situations with more possibilities to those with fewer, ceteris paribus.”

But isn’t that just some hidden metaphysical structure? That is, it’s unavailable as formal appearance?

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