Speak no ill of the dead: the dead as a social group
In her recent article “The Ontology of Social Groups”, Thomasson (Synthese 196:4829–4845, 2019) argues that social groups can be characterized in terms of the norms that surround them. We show that according to Thomasson’s normativity-based criterion, the dead constitute a social group, since there...
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Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
2022
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