##  [Rule-Following Paradox](/index.php/rule-following-paradox) 

  ##  [Rule-Following Paradox](https://humanitites.quantumdictionary.io/rule-following-paradox-0) 

  

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Definition

A skeptical philosophical problem (famously associated with Wittgensteinian discussions) that questions how the mere specification of a rule determines its application in novel or marginal cases: the paradox asks what justifies treating one interpretation of a rule as the correct one rather than another when the rule's text underdetermines its application.