In what sense (if any) is meaning normative?

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dc.contributor.advisorBuchanan, L. Ray (Lawrence Ray)
dc.creatorMiller, Taylor-Grey
dc.creator.orcid0000-0002-7515-3859
dc.date.accessioned2021-02-03T22:13:02Z
dc.date.available2021-02-03T22:13:02Z
dc.date.created2018-08
dc.date.issued2018-04-26
dc.date.submittedAugust 2018
dc.date.updated2021-02-03T22:13:03Z
dc.description.abstract"Meaning is normative" has become a popular dictum in the philosophy of language. Moreover, some proponents of the dictum have appealed to the normativity of meaning in order to demonstrate the hopelessness of a reduction of semantic to non-semantic vocabulary. The upshot, some maintain is that this stands in the way of a naturalistically respectable theory of meaning. The aim of this paper is to get clear on what exactly the dictum should amount to in order to pose a problem for a naturalistic theory of meaning and then see whether the dictum is true. I will argue that the most plausible version of the thesis that meaning is normative poses no real threat to the possibility of naturalism about meaning
dc.description.departmentPhilosophy
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2152/84609
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.26153/tsw/11588
dc.language.isoen
dc.subjectMeaning
dc.subjectNormativity
dc.subjectKripke
dc.subjectRule-following
dc.subjectConstitutive
dc.subjectLanguage
dc.subjectLogic
dc.titleIn what sense (if any) is meaning normative?
dc.typeThesis
dc.type.materialtext
thesis.degree.departmentPhilosophy
thesis.degree.disciplinePhilosophy
thesis.degree.grantorThe University of Texas at Austin
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Arts

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