On epistemic conceptions of meaning: use, meaning and normativity

Many philosophers hold that for an expression to possess meaning is for there to norms governing its use. By combining this with a further idea, namely that the relevant norms are epistemic, one arrives at an epistemic conception of meaning (EM). In this paper, I outline a problem for EM, which moti...

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Main Author: Whiting, Daniel (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2009.
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