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    It is not the case that Wittgenstein's rule-following considerations show that no orthographic pattern is self-interpreting; community practice, not spelling, fixes which type a token belongs to.

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    • 1.Community practice itself requires members to recognize the same pattern; this presupposes some form of pattern-identity independent of interpretation.
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    • 2.Neurological and causal facts about orthographic processing show tokens activate type-recognizing mechanisms before any communal check occurs.
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    • 3.Communities can be wrong about spelling conventions; appealing to practice cannot ground which practices are actually *correct* or constitute genuine types.
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    • 1.Wittgenstein showed that rule-following requires interpretation; interpretation itself requires guidance; this regress halts only in communal practice.
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    • 2.Identical orthographic shapes have been typed differently across historical communities, proving shapes alone don't determine type membership.
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    • 3.A solitary person cannot establish what counts as 'following a rule correctly' versus 'merely thinking they follow it'; community provides this criterion.
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