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The normativity of meaning revisited

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2019
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Glock, H.-J. (2019). The normativity of meaning revisited. In N. Roughley & K. Bayertz (Eds.), The Normative Animal?: On the Anthropological Significance of Social, Moral, and Linguistic Norms (pp. 295–318). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190846466.003.0015

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The question of whether meaning is inherently normative has become a central topic in philosophy and linguistics. It also has crucial implications for anthropology and for understanding the evolution of language. This chapter defends the normativity of meaning against some recent challenges. Anti-normativists contend that while there are “semantic principles”—aka explanations of meaning—specifying conditions for the correct application of expressions, these are either not genuinely normative or they are not in fact constitutive of mea

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  • Roughley, Neil
  • Bayertz, Kurt

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The Normative Animal?: On the Anthropological Significance of Social, Moral, and Linguistic Norms

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Oxford

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295

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318

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Normativity

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2019-07-25

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978-0-1908-4646-6

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Glock, H.-J. (2019). The normativity of meaning revisited. In N. Roughley & K. Bayertz (Eds.), The Normative Animal?: On the Anthropological Significance of Social, Moral, and Linguistic Norms (pp. 295–318). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190846466.003.0015

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