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You seem to have developed a good clear grasp on these topics.

You said every ‘rule’ is an implicit model of the world. So are a lot of things. A spoken language and the culture that gave rise to it is also a model of the world in a similar way.

Keeping in mind that such "models" also leave out a lot of information about the actual world.

The hypothetico deductive model of science could be said to be the same.

They are models that enable us to talk about the world, make observations that are mutually intelligible and which can be assimilated (as they are public models rather than private models in one person's mind).

Anyway, I had never before heard someone articulate that ‘rules’ also are an implicit model of the world.

Food for thought, thank you.

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