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The Salem Witch Project
Author(s) -
Horgan Terry,
Tammelleo Steve
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
philosophy and phenomenological research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.7
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1933-1592
pISSN - 0031-8205
DOI - 10.1111/j.1933-1592.2002.tb00195.x
Subject(s) - witch , citation , computer science , library science , ecology , biology
The received view is that the grammar of meaning claims is descriptive. It is our purpose in what follows to deny this consensus.... We offer, instead, a radically normative position on meaning claims. That is, we do not content ourselves with the relatively common view that part of the pattern characterized in ascribing meanings is the structure of socially accepted norms of a society. Rather, we claim that the very speech act of making a meaning claim is itself normative, that sayil Philosophy and Phenomenological Research rt, the grammar of meaning is normative Vol. LXV, No. 1, July 2002