ABSTRACT
Rupert Read emphasises, in developing a deflationary ‘model’ of rule followings (as actions interleaved with the rules which they may be said to instantiate), that acting from rules can always involve a transition from one (point in a) grammar to another – sometimes quite novel – one. We should be open to speaking of grammar as something that is far more in flux than philosophers (especially many ‘Wittgensteinans’) usually like to suppose.
The only ‘logical’ relations among points in a dialogue, among rule and act and rule, are presumptive and even constructed. As a sequence of discourse occurs, each moment in the sequence gets presumed in what follows. But then these relations are not all fixed: they do not have the kind of atemporal ‘hardness’ that, Rupert Read argues here, is sometimes tacitly ascribed to them.
