Audience determines whether formalism should be embraced. [contrarian]
Indeed it is possible that specialized interpreters should reject formalism but that nonspecialists should embrace it; and academic specialists are unlikely to appreciate this point.
QUESTION: What is the context here? Formalism in what field — law, literature, mathematics? The claim that specialists and nonspecialists should take opposite positions is provocative and worth chasing.
Unknown, Cass R. Sunstein, Adrian V…, loc. 38