Expressivism as normative social functionalism: Wittgenstein and Sellars

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In the text it will be attempted to prove existence of a tradition expressivism in form normative social functionalism as common denominator for position or positions taken by later Wittgenstein and Wilfrid Sellars regards questions objectivity normativity lingustic meaning, presented answers problem rule following. formulates following at approximately same time does Wittgenstein. Also, Sellars? answer this problem, Wittgenstein?s call upon meaning determined practices use expressions. It is claimed that clusters authors culminates inferential pragmatism Robert Brandom. Apart from above, paper also discusses differences between said authors, most prominent which manifested different consequences their contrary metaphilosophical attitudes.

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ژورنال

عنوان ژورنال: Theoria

سال: 2022

ISSN: ['1665-6415']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2298/theo2204017j