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SideburnsOfDoomyesterday at 9:32 AM1 replyview on HN

Right. is "the basic science of what simple rules do" not the same as Formal systems?

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


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lupireyesterday at 2:20 PM

It's not Formal Systems.

Formal Systems is the study of logical systems themselves.

Ruliology is a study of what actual systems do.

It's doing the arithmetic computations and looking at the results, not the abstract algebra.

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