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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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