Accepting interpretation as fundamental leads to an infinite regress of interpretations (as Wittgenstein notes: we can give one interpretation after another, each standing behind the last)
infinite regress(modes of argumentation available to a dogmatist)
An argument structure in which grounds are offered for a claim P, then grounds for those grounds, and so on indefinitely without ever repeating a proposition
interpretation(Formal semantics for modal nonmonotonic logic)
(5) Whether or not interpretation is always of something which to some extent already has meaning, or whether interpretation is the fundamental determinant of the meaning of linguistic expressions in, for example, legal texts. Marmor 1992, 2005 & Stone 1995 deny that interpretation is the fundamental determinant of the meaning of linguistic expressions and contend that, following a certain reading of Wittgenstein's remarks on rule-following (namely the kind of reading offered by McDowell 198