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    It is not the case that Wittgenstein's rule-following considerations show that no private mental act can fix the normative correctness conditions that meaning requires.

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    • 1.Normative correctness can emerge from individual dispositions and patterns without requiring transcendent, mind-independent facts.
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    • 2.The claim conflates epistemological privacy with metaphysical privacy—mental acts can fix meaning even if only the subject accesses them directly.
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    • 3.Community agreement itself depends on individuals' private understandings; rejecting all private fixation undermines the communal alternative.
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    • 1.Mental acts are intrinsically private and accessible only to the subject, making them unsuitable as public normative standards.
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    • 2.Meaning requires objective correctness conditions; what counts as following a rule correctly must transcend individual interpretation.
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    • 3.The regress problem shows private acts cannot self-justify their normative force without circular appeal to further mental acts.
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