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    What makes a continuation of an addition rule a case of g... — Carmelics
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    What makes a continuation of an addition rule a case of genuine rule-following is that the community continues in the same way.

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    • 1.Rule-following requires a standard external to the individual that determines correct continuation.
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    • 2.The community's shared practice of continuing a rule in the same way provides that external standard.
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    • 1.Community consensus can be systematically wrong, as when entire communities apply a rule incorrectly by shared but mistaken analogy.
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    • 2.If communal agreement constitutes correctness, then a community uniformly miscounting cannot be said to be miscounting, which is absurd.
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    • 3.Genuine rule-following requires correctness conditions that transcend what any community, however unanimous, actually does.
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    • 1.Kripke's own sceptical solution concedes there are no truth conditions for rule-following claims, only assertability conditions grounded in community practice.
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    • 2.A standard constituted entirely by assertability conditions within a community cannot distinguish between following a rule and merely conforming to group behavior.
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    • 3.Wittgenstein's own remark that 'a rule cannot determine its application' applies equally to communal practice, since the community itself must follow a rule for 'same way' to have determinate content.
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    As Davidson suggests (cf. Davidson 1991: 157), his position here might be said to have certain similarities to that put forward in Wittgenstein’s Private Language Argument, at least under the interpretation given by Kripke (see Kripke 1982). Kripke takes Wittgenstein as arguing that it is impossible to make sense of what it is to follow a rule correctly, unless this means that what one is doing is following the practice of others who are like-minded: what makes our continuation of some addition
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