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    Challenges→We have gone astray in our understanding of how rules operate if we accept that interpretation is fundamental to meaning

    Such an infinite regress entails radical linguistic indeterminacy

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    (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

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