Later Wittgenstein’s Rule-following Paradox and Chinese Philosophy of Meaning

Rule-following paradox in Philosophical Investigations remains a hot philosophical issue through which Wittgenstein promotes its intimate association with such core concepts like language games,meaning- is- use and private language.This paradoxical way of explicating meaning is echoed in Chinese traditional philosophy.This paper discusses how Wittgenstein’ s puzzle of meaning is touched upon and dissolved by Chinese traditional philosophy well expressed in Zhuangzi’ s On the Uniformity of All Things(齐物论),Sengzhao’ s Immovability of Thing(物不迁),and Gongsun Long’ s White Horse Dialogue(白马论),which all highlight determinacy in the indeterminacy of meaning.