Rules and privacy: remarks on philosophical investigations §202
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https://doi.org/10.5007/1677-2954.2016v15n2p317Abstract
I first distinguish issues about rules and issues about language in Wittgenstein. I then I distinguish private and private rules and argue that there can be private rules because norms of reasoning are private rules. I suggest that Wittgenstein may have equated rules with public rules. I end with reflections on private language.
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