The Formal, which is defined as that which is confined to the relationship between Mind and Langage, irrespective of the actual Reality of Being, is akin by parallel to Nietzsche's Socratic Appeal and Heidegger's Standing Reserve; it is an inferior dimension of human existence utterly unrelated to Reality. This is the dimension that the post-modernists are eager to deconstruct.
Given this, it is the pinnacle of irony that, whilst testing for sanity or sobriety, police officers ask individuals for the formalities of Name, Day of the Week, and Address. None of these abstractions are physical forms. Our legal system with its Kafkaesque snares is also the product of sheer Formality.
The expression "grammar-Nazi" is not entirely an exaggeration.
dm.A.A.
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