Around the Rules

‪“If the practices in which norms are implicit are understood simply as regularities of performance, then there is nothing the practitioner need already understand… . The norms implicit in regularities of conduct can be expressed explicitly in rules, but need not be expressible by those in whose regular conduct they are implicit.” —Robert Brandom, Making It Explicit

∴ No regress in the appeal to norms (regularities of performance) as an account of “knowing-that.”

Brandom on Sellars, regularism, and the rule following paradox suggested in Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations § 201