Place grammars and formal systems

Systems of norms are not like physical systems

So are place grammars formal systems that guide us?

I have tried to finesse this issue:

• by talking about how place grammars are composed of expectations and norms, with varying degrees of organization and self-awareness,
• by insisting that place grammars exist only as spread out in space and time, within the process of their repetition, not as abstract guides,
• and by insisting that they exist within fields that they do not control or structure,
• and that the formally describable structure or grammar is already, precisely because it involves linked possibilities, polarized by non-formal aims and goals
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But is this enough?

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