The logic and Philosophy of so-called moral and semantic Innocence
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5007/1808-1711.2024.e96705Keywords:
Moral and semantic innocence, Slurs, Quantificational logic, EndorsementAbstract
Using semantic and syntactic methods, we prove the compatibility of the truth of universally quantified slurring sentences of the form [all Ss are Ns] or [all Ss are S*s] with the existential core of moral and semantic innocence. We also show that proving their mutual compatibility by means of logic leaves untouched the moral problem tied to their material truth. Finally, we trace the problem back to the failure to signal in the spelling of the slurring term’s meaning that the derogatory concept it denotes is not universally accepted.
References
Hom, Ch. & Robert M. 2013. Moral and Semantic Innocence. Analytic Philosophy, 54 (3) (September): 293-313.
Hom, Ch. & Robert M. 2018. Pejoratives as Fiction. In: Bad Words: Philosophical Perspectives on Slurs, edited by D. Sosa, 108-131. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Horn, L. R. 2007. Toward a Fregean Pragmatics: Voraussetzung, Nebengedanke, Andeutung. In: Explorations in Pragmatics: Linguistic, Cognitive, and Intercultural Aspects, edited by I. Kecskes and L. D. Horn. Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
Karttunen, L. 2016. Presupposition: What Went Wrong. Proceedings of SALT, 26: 705-731.
Kortum, R. D. 2013. Varieties of Tone: Frege, Dummett, and the Shades of Meaning. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Orlando, E. 2021. On the Moral Import of Using Slurs. In: Slurs and Expressivity: Semantics and Beyond, edited by E. Orlando and A. Saab. Lanham (MD): Lexington Books.
Sander, T. 2020. Fregean Side-Thoughts. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 99 (3) (August): 455-471.
Valtonen, Pasi. 2019. Semantic Innocence and Kaplanian Inferences. SATS, 20 (1): 19-33.
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2024 Ludovic Soutif, André Nascimento Pontes
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Principia http://www.periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/principia/index is licenced under a Creative Commons - Atribuição-Uso Não-Comercial-Não a obras derivadas 3.0 Unported.
Base available in www.periodicos.ufsc.br.