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I 260f
Rules only exist within a practice, which is maintained by the fact that the parties are in agreement.
>Convention, >Community, >Language community.
Rules/Wittgenstein/Wright: whatever Wittgenstein's dialectic exactly achieves it forces in any case some kind of restriction for a realistic idea of rules and meaning.
>Realism.
And therefore also for truth, because truth is a function of meaning.
>Truth, >Meaning.
Rule-following/Wright: shows that judgments about meanings and that what corresponds to these conditionally, are withdrawn from cognitive coercion. And then the same must also apply to claims about the truth of sentences.
>Cognitive coercion, >Rule following.
This intuitive reasoning is therefore not a trivial solipsism and the ghost of a global minimalism (Boghossian) is still among us.
>Nonfactualism, >Minimalism/Wright.
I 288
Rule-following/Wright: in the three other areas of discourse (without evidence transcendence as in mathematics) however, it appears that they are biased by considerations to rule consequences.
These considerations may
1. prevent the formulation itself, and prevent that the problem appears solvable at all
2. discover misconceptions, presented jointly by the opponents,
3. affect the result from the outset in favor of minimalism.
4. Difficulty: how can we achieve the desired realism of objectivity, if our response to a problem will never be able to free itself from a dependence on skills and aptitudes to spontaneous reactions whose own state is drawn into doubt with respect to objectivity.
>Objectivity.
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Rorty VI 55ff
WrightVsDavidson: Cognitive bid, language, meaning, truth and knowledge would collapse if there is no offense in relation to what we call "addition".
>Nonfactualism, >Cognitive coercion, >Quaddition, >Facts, >D. Davidson.
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II 225
Rules/Wright: not in the same language.
>Metalanguage, >Object language.
Exception: an expression of what someone understands when he understands "red": can be formulated in the same language.
>Understanding.
Chess: not from the inside/(s) otherwise learnable by observation - then never certain whether these are all rules, or if not in reality quite different rules.
>Chess.
Prevailing view/Wright: the prevailing view is that rules can be recognized from the inside out.
WrightVs: that would demand that language use can be explained as an application of rules. - That excludes to see it at the same time as a game (as actually desired).
II 226
Rules/vagueness/Wright: problem when applying predicates which should be guided by rules: then in the case of vagueness simultaneous application and non-application prescribed when overlapping.
>Vagueness, >Predication, >Attribution.

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