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    Challenges→A sentence S expresses the proposition p if and only if three conditions are satisfied: speakers typically utter S only if they believe p and come to believe p upon hearing S; community members believe this regularity holds; and belief in this regularity (including belief that others share it) gives members reason to perpetuate it.

    Kripke's rule-following considerations demonstrate that no finite pattern of communal behavior can uniquely fix which rule governs an expression's use.

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