Rules are made to be broken?
Rules are made to be broken?

Summary/Abstract: Wittgenstein’s notorious paradox involving rule following comes to the fore. There is the need to bring up this paradox, since it bears on the idea of process. This idea in turn evokes variation on the transition from possible possibility to the merely possible to actual signness to signs becoming other signs as they cascade along the ever changing semiosic stream. Given such change, homogeny, virtual indistinctness within the range of possibilities, gives way to hierogeny – hierarchical distinctiveness, and hence hegemony never ceases to threaten – and the process moves along heterogenous differentiations that render differences more subtle as they become finer and finer, toward that hoary dream of a globalizing homogenous social world. However, the road to that dream veers off toward infinity: hence it is an impossible dream. In this vein, the very notion of infinity merits a further look – to be taken up in Chapter Eight.

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