Semantic Dimensions of Slurs.
I plot accounts of slurs on a [semanticist – non-semanticist] spectrum, and then I give some original arguments in favor of semanticist approaches. Two core, related pro-semanticist considerations which animate this work are: first, that the pejorative dimension of a slur is non-cancellable; and, se...
| Published in: | Philosophia Vol. 50; no. 3; pp. 1479 - 1494 |
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Jul2022
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