Pejoratives & Oughts.
Chris Hom argued that slurs and pejoratives semantically express complex negative prescriptive properties, which are determined in virtue of standing in external causal relations to social ideologies and practices. He called this view Combinatorial Externalism. Additionally, he argued that Combinato...
| Published in: | Philosophia Vol. 49; no. 3; pp. 1109 - 1126 |
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Jul2021
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