Generic inferential rules for slurs and contrasting senses

Pasi Valtonen

doi:10.1111/theo.12428

Generic inferential rules for slurs and contrasting senses

Pasi Valtonen

History, Philosophy and Literary Studies

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1037-1052
Number of pages	16
Journal	Theoria (Sweden)
Volume	88
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/theo.12428
Publication status	Published - Oct 2022
Publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

Keywords

inferential rules
Kaplanian inferences
slurs
substitutions

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Philosophy

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