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    It is not the case that 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.Community practice may ground rule-application through causal regularity and behavioral convergence, not rule-following, thus avoiding the regress.
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    • 2.The regress argument conflates justification (requiring reasons) with normativity (requiring standards); communal practice provides the latter without the former.
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    • 3.Wittgenstein's point about rules may show foundationalism fails, but this doesn't prove communal practice faces identical problems—it may be the stopping-point itself.
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    • 1.Rules require interpretation; interpreting a rule requires following another rule, creating infinite regress unless halted by brute practice.
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    • 2.Community practice is itself a rule-governed entity that needs grounding; it cannot escape the same regress problem that affects individual rule-following.
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    • 3.Without an independent standard beyond communal agreement, 'same way' becomes circular: the community determines sameness, sameness justifies the community.
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