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    Without a public medium of expression, the normative stan... — Carmelics
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    Supports→The argument from understanding cannot be straightforwardly applied to concepts and content.

    Without a public medium of expression, the normative standard for 'correct application' of a concept collapses into the thinker's own dispositions, undermining any gap between use and correctness.

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    Normative standard(as used in ethics)
    A rule or principle that tells us what *should* be the case, what's right or wrong—not just what *is* the case.
    concept(Empiricist tradition)
    A mental representation formed from copies of sensory representations, assembled in accordance with general-purpose learning rules.
    dispositions(Used broadly by educational researchers)
    The habits of mind and attitudes that contribute causally to being a critical thinker.
    gap between use and correctness(as used in philosophy of language)
    The difference between how someone actually uses a word and whether that use is actually *right*—without this gap, there would be no way to be wrong.
    public medium of expression(as used in philosophy of language and mind)

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