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It is not the case that If meaning is grounded in communal form-of-life rather than mental acts, then expression-meaning in the practice is prior to any particular speaker's meaning.
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Communal meaning is itself composed of individual speakers' meanings; treating it as ontologically prior inverts the actual dependence relation.
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Novel, creative, or deviant uses of language by individuals can shift communal practice, showing speakers' meanings sometimes lead rather than follow.
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The claim confuses practical priority (learning order) with metaphysical priority (what grounds meaning's existence and nature).
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Language rules are learned through social practice, not private introspection, so shared usage patterns necessarily precede individual understanding.
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A speaker's idiosyncratic mental state cannot make an expression meaningful if the community doesn't recognize that meaning in their practice.
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Children acquire language by participating in communal forms-of-life before developing sophisticated individual intentionality.
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