Constructivist and Platonic readings of rule-following either assume an explanatory gap between the statements and the meanings of rules,or have to face an insurmountable regression of interpretation.As for the skeptic reading,its presupposition of the"skeptic paradox"is fundamentally incomprehensible.Against all these unsuccessful attempts,this paper proposes a Wittgensteinian quietist reading from a so-called"primitive view"on rule-following,whose advantage lies in its disclosure of some new dilemmas in non-quietist readings.In addition,this new reading refuses problematic modal analyses and is more in line with our intuitions about rule-following,thereby improving current quietist readings.