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    A statement can be sinnlos within a formal system while r... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Game formalism likely implies mathematical utterances are unsinnig (nonsensical) rather than merely sinnlos (lacking sense)

    A statement can be sinnlos within a formal system while remaining syntactically well-formed and operationally significant, placing game formalism closer to sinnlos than unsinnig.

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    • 1.Wittgenstein distinguished sinnlos (senseless) from unsinnig (nonsensical): sinnlos statements follow rules but lack empirical content, like tautologies.
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    • 2.Game rules are internally coherent and operationally functional, yet make no claims about external reality, matching sinnlos precisely.
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    • 3.Chess moves are well-formed per rules and meaningful within the system, but the system itself makes no truth-claims about the world.
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    • 1.Sinnlos applies to statements within language attempting reference; game rules aren't statements but constitutive prescriptions with different logical status.
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    • 2.Operational significance entails pragmatic content and context-dependent meaning, which exceeds Wittgenstein's notion of sinnlos formalism.
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    • 3.If games are sinnlos, they become indistinguishable from meaningless formal systems, yet players understand and value them cognitively.
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