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201. And hence also `obeying a rule' is a practice.
And to think one is obeying a rule is not to obey a rule. Hence it
is not possible to obey a rule 'privately': otherwise thinking one was
obeying a rule would be the same thing as obeying it.
--Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations






2003-01-29