... and by "formalism" here, I mean what I meant by "analytic." A self-contained approach to a problem that is not a formalistic problem. post-formalistic = post-analytic. These are synonyms, as I mean them. "Post-modern" would mean something different. It would mean adopting skepticism: that no better answers exist. I am not, and never was, a post-modernist. And neither was Wittgenstein. ======================== I want to say this clearly: Wittgenstein is the father of anti-formalism. I myself am a post-formalistic thinker who claims Wittgenstein as the primary heir for such an outlook. SW