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    It is not the case that If all meaning derives from rule-following within a shared form of life, the 'speaking speech' pole collapses into 'spoken speech', making the distinction incoherent rather than complementary.

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    • 1.Rules themselves must be interpreted and applied contextually; this interpretive moment requires agency exceeding mechanical rule-following.
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    • 2.Shared forms of life evolve through individual innovations that reshape norms; this requires a generative pole distinct from rule-instantiation.
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    • 3.The distinction survives as complementary: spoken speech stabilizes forms of life while speaking speech continuously reinterprets their meaning.
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    • 1.Rule-following requires internalization of communal norms, making individual innovation derivative of collective patterns already established.
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    • 2.The distinction between speaking and spoken speech presupposes a speaker transcending rules, but all speech acts instantiate existing rule-systems.
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    • 3.If meaning emerges only through rule-governed practice, creative speech-acts cannot generate genuinely new meaning—only recombine existing elements.
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