Speaking about the normativity of meaning
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Speaking about the normativity of meaning. / Lo Presti, Patrizio Ulf Enrico.
In: SATS - Northern European Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 18, No. 1, 2017, p. 55.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Speaking about the normativity of meaning
AU - Lo Presti, Patrizio Ulf Enrico
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - 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. Antinormativists 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 andpermissions.
AB - 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. Antinormativists 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 andpermissions.
M3 - Journal article
VL - 18
SP - 55
JO - SATS - Northern European Journal of Philosophy
JF - SATS - Northern European Journal of Philosophy
SN - 1600-1974
IS - 1
ER -
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