Slurs under quotation.
Against content theories of slurs, according to which slurs have some kind of derogatory content, Anderson and Lepore have objected that they cannot explain that even slurs under quotation can cause offense. If slurs had some kind of derogatory content, the argument goes, quotation would render this...
| Publicado en: | Philosophical Studies Vol. 179; no. 5; pp. 1483 - 1495 |
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May2022
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