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Speaking About the Normativity of Meaning by Lo Presti Patrizio is a Arts and Humanities article available to read on EtoBox.
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## Abstract Contemporary debate on the nature of meaning centres on whether meaning is normative. Agreement is widespread that meaning implies correctness, but disagreement on whether correctness is normative remains. Normativists argue that correctness implies obligations or permissions. Anti-normativists disagree and hold that correctness is a descriptive term. This paper argues that, fundamentally, meaning presupposes norms, but not in the generic normativist sense: a vocabulary is recognisable as part of a language if and only if it is part of a practice of committing and entitling to ask for and provide reasons for what is said. To commit and entitle is not obliged or permitted. It is a presupposition for speaking about obligations and permissions.
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- Author
- Lo Presti Patrizio
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)