 The “anti-individualistic” and “normative” responses to instability discussed in  3.2.2  can also both do service in defending the meaning holist from worries about objectivity. The anti-individualist strategy would do a good job accounting for individual error, since individual inferences can be understood as mistaken in virtue of being out of line with the preferred social usage. Nevertheless, understanding how the preferred social usage (be it expert usage, majority usage, or something else) could be mistaken would still be a problem on such an account. The normative strategy, on the other hand, build’s a notion of objectivity directly into the use appealed to, and so seems best placed to respect the purported objectivity of our claims (the fact that the inferences that we should make couldn’t turn out to be mistaken on such an account doesn’t seem particularly troubling). However, as discussed in  3.2.2,  both of the anti-individualistic and normative responses detach meaning from individual use in a way that many meaning holists would find unacceptable.