What does it mean to follow a rule?
Suppose that we are in a foreign country, and to see a road sign with an arrow pointing forward. How to interpret this sign? We would be inclined to follow the arrow, but there is no doubt that the sign that goes interpreted differently.
We ask, then, a local resident passing nearby to be interpreted as a sign, and he tells us that we need to go straight. Reassured by the explanation we put in motion following the arrow, when the person who has just given explanations begins to cry making us understand that we were wrong, that you can not go in that direction.
We asked the ' correct interpretation of the cartel, but we understood? Perhaps we also need the interpretation of Interpretation: what he meant straight there?
What is needed to correctly follow a rule? It seems that an interpretation is not enough, nor the interpretation of interpretation, as it could go on forever.
A rule stands there like a signpost. - Leaves no room for doubt about the road I take? It tells me which way I do when I went through? If I continue on the road, or to predict the path, or go through the fields? But where is it written in which direction should I follow that signal? If I have to go in the direction indicated by the finger or rather (for example). In the opposite direction? (1)(1) L. Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations , Einaudi 1983 (1953), § 85, p. 56.
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