ABSTRACT
Wittgenstein considers various kinds of facts about individuals in virtue of which it might be said that rule-following is an individual matter; facts about what goes on in someone's consciousness, about his brain states, about his use of examples, tables or formulae. Wittgenstein holds, the only thing that must be true of someone who is trying to follow a rule, so long as we consider just the individual and not facts about some community, is that he is disposed to think that certain cases fall under the rule and others do not. The community view has been made plausible by negative considerations against various individualistic accounts of rule-following. The later discussion of the impossibility of a private language is not only a discussion of what may seem to be an especially problematic case for the community view.
