Confusion of Tongues A Theory of Normative Language

Name: Confusion of Tongues A Theory of Normative Language
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ISBN: 9780199347490

ISBN-10: 0199347492

ISBN-13: 9780199347490

Edition: 2014

Authors: Stephen Finlay

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Can normative words like "good," "ought," and "reason" be defined in entirely non-normative terms? Confusion of Tongues argues that they can, advancing a new End-Relational theory of the meaning of this language as providing the best explanation of the many different ways it is ordinarily used. Philosophers widely maintain that analyzing normative language as describing facts about relations cannot account for special features of particularly moral and deliberative uses of normative language, but Stephen Finlay argues that the End-Relational theory systematically explains these on the basis of a single fundamental principle of conversational pragmatics. These challenges comprise the central…

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List price: $115.00
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/8/2014
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.42" wide x 9.21" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English