The work discusses some common elements present in the way Hegel and Wittgenstein argue against the idea that objectivity can be understood in terms of pure receptivity. I consider the impact of Wittgenstein observations concerning what makes the following of a rule correct , both for the way we think about correctness and for the contact with the world and truth. I contrast these observations with Hegel's use of some Kantian ideas and how this use brings light to the way we can think about the contact of our thought with the world. In the course of the elaboration of a position that could take Hegel's and Wittgenstein's arguments, I examine some positions recently recommended by McDowell, Hornsby and Brandom. I finish out by suggesting a way of thinking about truth without appealing to the image of an adequatio intellectus ad rem, and a way of thinking about objectivity that builds on Hegel and Wittgenstein's arguments against the possibility of accessing the world without the aid of conceptual practices.
Hegel; Wittgenstein; Objectivity; Truth; Rule-Following; Correction