Generic inferential rules for slurs: Dummett and Williamson on ethnic pejoratives.
Michael Dummett has proposed an influential analysis of the meaning of ethnic and racial slurs based on inferential rules. Timothy Williamson, however, finds the analysis problematic. It does not seem to explain how slurs are actually used. Williamson's challenge for the inferentialist account of sl...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 198; no. 15; pp. 6533 - 6552 |
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