Rule-Following Paradox and its Implications for Metaphysics

This monograph presents Azzouni’s new approach to the rule-following paradox. His solution leaves intact an isolated individual’s capacity to follow rules, and it simultaneously avoids replacing the truth conditions for meaning-talk with mere assertability conditions for that talk. 

Kripke’s influential version of Wittgenstein’s rule-following paradox—and Wittgenstein’s views more generally—on th...