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    Wittgenstein's rule-following considerations establish th... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Aesthetic norms requiring purely optical attention cannot be taken seriously as prescriptions.

    Wittgenstein's rule-following considerations establish that a norm with no possible compliance conditions is not a genuine normative rule but mere pseudo-prescription.

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    • 1.Wittgenstein's private language argument shows that rule-following requires public criteria of correctness, making uncheckable norms incoherent.
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    • 2.A norm cannot guide behavior if no one could ever determine whether they followed it correctly, making compliance conditions essential to normativity.
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    • 3.Pseudo-prescriptions masquerade as normative but lack the observable conditions that distinguish genuine rules from arbitrary utterances.
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    • 1.Some norms govern internal mental states (e.g., 'be sincere') where compliance conditions are phenomenologically accessible without public criteria.
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    • 2.Wittgenstein's rule-following concerns target justification chains, not whether norms can guide; non-grounded norms may still genuinely regulate behavior.
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    • 3.Moral and aesthetic norms often resist precise compliance conditions yet function normatively; conflating checkability with normativity begs the question.
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