遵守规则的“原始观点”

A“Primitive View”of Rule-Following

对遵守规则的建构主义和柏拉图主义解读,要么假定了规则陈述与其意义之间的解释鸿沟,要么面临难以克服的解释性倒退;至于怀疑论解读,它预设的“怀疑论悖论”根本上缺乏可理解性。本文提出一种基于“原始观点”的维特根斯坦式寂静主义解读,其理论优势在于,借此可以揭示上述解读的某些新困境;此外,这一理论无需依赖成问题的模态分析,且更加符合我们对遵守规则的直觉,从而改善了现有的寂静主义解读。

Constructivist and Platonic readings of rule-following either assume an explanatory gap between the statements and the meanings of rules,or have to face an insurmountable regression of interpretation.As for the skeptic reading,its presupposition of the“skeptic paradox”is fundamentally incomprehensible.Against all these unsuccessful attempts,this paper proposes a Witgensteinian quietist reading from a so-called“primitive view”on rule-following,whose advantage lies in its disclosure of some new dilemmas in non-quietist readings.In addition,this new reading refuses problematic modal analyses and is more in line with our intuitions about rule-following,thereby improving current quietist readings.