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    It is not the case that Wittgenstein's rule-following considerations show that concept use is normatively constrained by community practice, not just individual dispositions.

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    • 1.Community practice itself consists of individual dispositions aggregated; appeal to community doesn't escape the dispositionalist problem, only defers it.
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    • 2.Wittgenstein's private language argument targets incorrigible privacy, not individual rule-following; communities can still be wrong about meaning collectively.
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    • 3.Normative constraint requires explanation; saying 'community determines it' is descriptive of origin, not normative justification for rule-following behavior.
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    • 1.Private ostensive definitions cannot determine rule-following because a private sensation admits of unlimited interpretations without external constraint.
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    • 2.Actual linguistic competence requires shared criteria for correctness that individuals internalize through communal training and correction practices.
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    • 3.If meaning were individual dispositions alone, speakers would have no grounds to correct each other or identify genuine linguistic mistakes.
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