Report on the Editorial Rejection of "Peano as a Limit": A Case Study in Formalist Resistance to Physical Emergence

This document serves as a formal record of the editorial decision process regarding the manuscript“Peano as a Limit: Discrete Arithmetic and the Resolution of Multiplicity,” submitted to PhilosophiaMathematica. It documents the specific rationale provided for rejection—namely, that the physicalemergence of arithmetic is a tautology—and the subsequent refusal by the Editor to have this ratio-nale associated with their name in the public record. This report is preserved as a dataset to illustratethe epistemological gap between formalist philosophy of mathematics and modern complexity science.