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    If 'green' means green for S, then S ought to use 'green'... — Carmelics
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    Supports→The further notion of semantic correctness is essentially normative.

    If 'green' means green for S, then S ought to use 'green' in accordance with its meaning.

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    An alternative to the simple argument is to suggest that there is a further notion of semantic correctness, one that is not co-extensional with that of (CM) but that is both essential to meaning and normative. Thus, it has been claimed that there is a crucial ambiguity in the notion of correct use (Millar 2004: 160). On the one hand, there is the notion of semantic correctness as in (CM); on the other hand there is the notion of correct use as in “using an expression in accordance with its mea

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