Anti-Normativism Evaluated |
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Authors: | Ulf Hlobil |
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Institution: | University of Pittsburgh, USA |
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Abstract: | AbstractI argue that recent attempts to show that meaning and content are not normative fail. The two most important arguments anti-normativists have presented are what I call the ‘argument from constitution’ and the ‘argument from guidance’. Both of these arguments suffer from the same basic problem: they overlook the possibility of focusing on assessability by norms, rather than compliance with norms or guidance by norms. Moreover, I argue that the anti-normativists arguments fail even if we ignore this basic problem. Thus, we have not been given good reasons to think that normativism is false. |
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Keywords: | meaning content normativity normativism theory of content semantics |
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