What is a slur?
Although there seems to be an agreement on what slurs are, many authors diverge when it comes to classify some words as such. Hence, many debates would benefit from a technical definition of this term that would allow scholars to clearly distinguish what counts as a slur and what not. Although the p...
| Publicado en: | Philosophical Studies Vol. 177; no. 5; pp. 1399 - 1423 |
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May2020
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