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    It is not the case that Wittgenstein's rule-following considerations establish that no linguistic norm can be genuinely private, since meaning is constituted through shared practice.

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    • 1.Private mental states can function normatively for individuals without public verification; introspective consistency suffices for personal rule-following.
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    • 2.Wittgenstein conflates the epistemology of verification with the metaphysics of meaning; privacy doesn't entail that norms lack genuine normative force.
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    • 3.Shared practices themselves originate from individuals' rule-following; treating shared practice as foundational is circular rather than explanatory.
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    • 1.Rule-following requires criteria for correctness that distinguish right from wrong applications, which private ostensive definition cannot establish.
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    • 2.Meaning depends on the possibility of error and correction; a private rule-follower cannot distinguish genuine error from feeling of correctness.
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    • 3.Linguistic normativity requires public criteria; without shared practice, there is no basis for claiming one application 'follows' a rule rather than another.
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