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    Challenges→We need a Begriffsschrift, distinct from natural languages, to depict the structures of propositions expressed by ordinary sentences.

    Wittgenstein's later work shows that meaning is constituted by rule-governed use within practices, not by hidden logical structures underlying surface grammar.

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    • 1.Language games show meaning varies by context; chess moves mean differently than utterances, proving use constitutes meaning, not hidden logic.
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    • 2.Philosophical problems arise from ignoring ordinary language practices; understanding use dissolves pseudo-problems that logical analysis couldn't.
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    • 3.Private language argument demonstrates meaning requires public rule-following; solipsistic mental structures cannot constitute meaning independently.
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    • 1.Wittgenstein doesn't explain how rule-following itself works; invoking 'practice' just relocates rather than solves the problem of rule-determination.
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    • 2.Mathematical meaning appears determinate regardless of use; rules govern behavior consistently even when no community practices them identically.
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    • 3.Appeal to ordinary language as authority begs the question; rules underlying grammar may exist beneath usage even if not traditionally logical.
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