If meaning were exhausted by position within a formal system, co-referential terms in different systems could never be recognized as such, yet mathematicians routinely identify them.

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Co-referential(describing the relationship between 'ought' and 'produces best consequences'): Two different expressions that point to or mean the same thing underneath, even if they sound different on the surface.
Exhausted (in philosophy)(The statement questions whether a system's structure completely determines all of a term's meaning): Completely used up or fully accounted for—meaning there's nothing left beyond what's described.
Formal system(as used in logic and mathematics): A set of rules and symbols (like mathematical axioms) that you use to prove whether statements are true or false, similar to how a chess game has specific rules that determine what moves are legal.
meaning (in philosophy)(as used in language and philosophy): What a word, phrase, or concept actually refers to or stands for—essentially, what it means to understand something.

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