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Slurring Perspectives
Author(s) -
Camp Elisabeth
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
analytic philosophy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2153-960X
pISSN - 2153-9596
DOI - 10.1111/phib.12022
Subject(s) - citation , psychology , library science , computer science
Slurs are among the most rhetorically powerful and insidious expressions in a language. One key reason for this, I will argue, is that they present contents from a certain perspective, which is difficult to dislodge despite the fact that it is precisely what a nonbigoted hearer most wants to resist. To get a feel for the phenomenon, observe that on the most natural readings of the following sentences: