Inferentialism, Representationalism and Derogatory Words
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Inferentialism, Representationalism and Derogatory Words
1 Introduction In the philosophy of language, examining the role and significance of derogatory words serves to counter our tendency to divorce theories of meaning from the social settings in which the phenomenon is found, and the communicative acts, attitudes and shared interests they incorporate. 1 Hornsby stresses the significance of this in a recent paper, which will form the basis for disc...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Philosophical Studies
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0967-2559,1466-4542
DOI: 10.1080/09672550701383483