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What is the normativity of Meaning?

What is the normativity of Meaning?
What is the normativity of Meaning?
There has been much debate over whether to accept the claim that meaning is normative. One obstacle to making progress in that debate is that it is not always clear what the claim amounts to. In this paper, I try to resolve a dispute between those who advance the claim concerning how it should be understood. More specifically, I critically examine two competing conceptions of the normativity of meaning, rejecting one and defending the other. Though the paper aims to settle a dispute among proponents of the claim that meaning is normative, it should be of interest to those who challenge it. After all, before one takes aim, one’s target needs to be in clear view.
meaning, normativity, language
0020-174X
219-238
Whiting, Daniel
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Whiting, Daniel
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Whiting, Daniel (2013) What is the normativity of Meaning? Inquiry, 59, 219-238.

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There has been much debate over whether to accept the claim that meaning is normative. One obstacle to making progress in that debate is that it is not always clear what the claim amounts to. In this paper, I try to resolve a dispute between those who advance the claim concerning how it should be understood. More specifically, I critically examine two competing conceptions of the normativity of meaning, rejecting one and defending the other. Though the paper aims to settle a dispute among proponents of the claim that meaning is normative, it should be of interest to those who challenge it. After all, before one takes aim, one’s target needs to be in clear view.

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Accepted/In Press date: 23 September 2013
e-pub ahead of print date: 20 November 2013
Keywords: meaning, normativity, language
Organisations: Philosophy

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Local EPrints ID: 357276
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/357276
ISSN: 0020-174X
PURE UUID: f79e04a9-b420-4683-b26c-8322239c7073

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Date deposited: 04 Oct 2013 14:59
Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 14:57

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