Generic inferential rules for slurs and contrasting senses

This article offers a new perspective on the relationship between slurring terms and their neutral counterparts with an inferentialist view of slurs. I argue that slurs and their counterparts are coextensional with contrasting senses. Crucially, the proposed inferentialist view overcomes the combina...

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Veröffentlicht in:Theoria (Lund, Sweden) Sweden), 2022-10, Vol.88 (5), p.1037-1052
1. Verfasser: Valtonen, Pasi
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:This article offers a new perspective on the relationship between slurring terms and their neutral counterparts with an inferentialist view of slurs. I argue that slurs and their counterparts are coextensional with contrasting senses. Crucially, the proposed inferentialist view overcomes the combination of two challenges: Kaplanian inferences and the substitution argument. The previous views cannot account for both of them.
ISSN:0040-5825
1755-2567
DOI:10.1111/theo.12428