IS MEANING FRAUGHT WITH OUGHT? |
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Authors: | byDANIEL WHITING |
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Institution: | Philosophy, School of Humanities University of Southampton |
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Abstract: | According to Normativism, what an expression means has immediate implications for how a subject should or may (not) employ that expression. Many view this thesis as imposing substantive constraints upon theories of linguistic meaning. In this paper, I shall not consider that view; instead, I shall address the prior issue of whether or not one should accept Normativism. Against certain recent prominent lines of attack common to a number of different anti-Normativist discussions, I shall defend both the Normativist thesis and an attempt to appeal to a certain platitude in its support. |
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