From Rules to Meanings. New Essays on Inferentialism

0489503 - FLÚ 2019 RIV US eng M - Monography Chapter
Svoboda, Vladimír
The Nature and Diversity of Rules.
From Rules to Meanings. New Essays on Inferentialism. New York: Routledge, 2018 - (Beran, O.; Kolman, V.; Koreň, L.), s. 261-277. Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy, 103. ISBN 978-1-138-10261-3
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Keywords : rules * norms * inferentialism * normative space
OECD category: Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

The paper suggests that the terminological/conceptual apparatus employed in debates on rules within the inferentialist environment as well as in other areas of philosophy needs elaboration and clarification. It argues that within the “rule-talk” we should carefully distinguish when we speak about rules (norms) understood as social facts (F-rules) and when we speak about rules understood as abstract linguistic entities (L-rules). We should also be aware of the fact that besides a full-fledged existence which can ascribed to F-rules if a relevant regulative relationship between social subjects has been established, we also need to ascribe another kind of “existence” (validity) to rules. This kind of relative “existence” can be ascribed to L-rules which jointly form a normative space. Such space can be inhabited by agents. (The uninhabited exist only in a standby mode - as a SB-system). In its last part, the paper tries to provide a firmer grasp on the often made but rarely examined distinction between explicit and implicit rules.
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