Is meaning fraught with ought?
Is meaning fraught with ought?
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.
normativity, meaning, semantic, normative, language, philosophy
535-555
Whiting, Daniel
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2009
Whiting, Daniel
c0847bb4-963e-470d-92a2-5c8aae5d5aef
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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Published date: 2009
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normativity, meaning, semantic, normative, language, philosophy
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ISSN: 0279-0750
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