In the Preface of Making It Explicit, Robert Brandom states that his philosophy of language follows Wittgenstein's when addressing the question of how expressions come to mean something: the meaning of an expression is explained in terms of the rules of use within a linguistic community. In his exploration of human language, Wittgenstein makes us imagine, again and again, extreme situations so we may see how our language works in a normal situation. For instance, in sections 206 and 207 of Philosophical Investigations, Wittgenstein