This paper presents a series of arguments aimed at showing that, for an important subclass of social rules—non-summary rules—no adequate metaphysical account has been given, and it tentatively suggests that no such account can be given. The category of non-summary rules is an important one, as it includes the rules of etiquette, fashion, chess, basketball, California state law, descriptive English grammar, and so on. This paper begins with behavioristic accounts of the conditions for the existence of such rules, and proceeds through progressively more complex accounts, all the way to what are labeled ‘normative attitude accounts,’ which are prima facie plausible and particularly popular. In each case it is argued that the type of account under consideration cannot explain the existence of the relevant type of social rule.

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规则的新问题

本文提出了一系列论点，旨在表明，对于社会规则的一个重要子类——非概括性规则——尚未给出足够的形而上学解释，并且初步表明不能给出这样的解释。非概括性规则类别是重要的一类，它包括礼仪、时尚、国际象棋、篮球、加州法律、描述性英语语法等规则。本文从对此类规则存在条件的行为主义解释开始，然后逐步进行更复杂的解释，一直到所谓的“规范态度解释”，这些解释表面上似乎合理且特别受欢迎。在每种情况下，人们都认为所考虑的账户类型无法解释相关社会规则类型的存在。