Rule-Following and Finitude

Document Type

Journal Article

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Author

Published In

Philosophical Inquiries

Volume

13

Issue

2

First Page

83

Last Page

101

Publication Date

12-2025

Abstract

It can seem that the point of the finitude argument put forward by the meaning sceptic in Saul Kripke’s Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language is merely that of undermining a particular approach to meaning, the dispositionalist approach. I argue that Kripke’s remarks about finitude have a more universal purport than has been recognized. They supply the materials for a better understanding of the kind of creatures we are and of the kind of phenomenon meaning is.

Keywords

meaningrule-followingfinitudenon-reductionism

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