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    Wittgenstein's rule-following considerations establish th... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Human languages are manifestations of cosmic articulation rather than purely human constructs.

    Wittgenstein's rule-following considerations establish that linguistic meaning is constituted by communal practice, not prior metaphysical structures.

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    • 1.Private ostensive definition fails: individuals cannot establish meaning alone without public criteria of correctness from community practices.
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    • 2.Meaning requires normativity: only shared social practices provide the communal standards that distinguish correct from incorrect rule-following.
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    • 3.Empirically, children acquire language through socialization, not by consulting pre-existing metaphysical essences independent of cultural context.
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    • 1.Communities themselves require rule-following: explaining meaning via communal practice presupposes the very concept of rule-following it purports to ground.
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    • 2.Mathematical and logical truths appear mind-independent: their objective validity suggests meaning transcends contingent communal agreement.
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    • 3.Wittgenstein's argument overgeneralizes: some meanings (e.g., 'pain') may have both communal and phenomenological foundations, not purely social constitution.
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