Title:
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The case against semantic relativism
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Author:
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Marques, Teresa
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Notes:
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This chapter presents reasons against semantic relativism. Semantic relativism is motivated by intuitions that are presumed to raise problems for traditional or contextualist semantics in contested domains of discourse. Intuition-based arguments are those based on competent speakers’ putative intuitions about seeming faultless disagreement, eavesdroppers, and retraction cases. I will organize the discussion in three parts. First, I shall provide a brief introduction to intuition-based arguments offered in favor of semantic relativism. Second, I shall indicate that there are ways for contextualism to explain the (appearance of) intuitions that support semantic relativism. Third, I shall review of experimental results and independent arguments that put into question the appeal of semantic relativism. |
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-Semàntica (Filosofia) -Relativisme -Semantics (Philosophy) -Relativity |
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(c) Informa UK Limited, 2019
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Document type:
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Book Part Article - Accepted version |
Published by:
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Routledge
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