The resistant effect of slurs: A nonpropositional, presuppositional account

The aim of this paper is to account for the resistance to cancelation, rejection, and retraction exhibited by slurs. The kind of explanation we offer is a presuppositional one. Like the most recent presuppositional accounts, moreover, ours is a nonpropositional presuppositional proposal. Our view is...

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Autores: Moreno Zurita, Alba, Pérez Navarro, Eduardo
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Murcia
Repositorio:DIGITUM. Depósito Digital Institucional de la Universidad de Murcia
OAI Identifier:oai:digitum.um.es:10201/142525
Acceso en línea:http://dx.doi.org/10.6018/daimon.360561
http://hdl.handle.net/10201/142525
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Slurs
Resistance
Cancelation
Rejection
Retraction
Presupposition
Resistencia
Cancelación
Rechazo
Retractación
Presuposición
CDU::1 - Filosofía y psicología
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Sumario:The aim of this paper is to account for the resistance to cancelation, rejection, and retraction exhibited by slurs. The kind of explanation we offer is a presuppositional one. Like the most recent presuppositional accounts, moreover, ours is a nonpropositional presuppositional proposal. Our view is that, to be felicitous, utterances of sentences featuring slurs require certain components to be part of the common ground, but these components are not propositions, but worldorderings.