If the basic semantic relation is non-normative, the relevant question shifts from whether semantic correctness could be given a normative construal to whether semantics needs such a construal.
A use of an expression being correct or incorrect in virtue of meaning, such that a use can fail to match what one is disposed to regard as appropriate.
semantic relation(philosophy of language)
The connection between a word or sign and what it actually means or refers to in the world.
semantics(Distinguished from metasemantics and pragmatics in Kaplan 1989)
The domain that concerns the facts about what meanings words or phrases have.
This strand in the debate might seem to suggest that behind the discussion of the simple argument lies nothing but a basic clash of intuitions. The anti-normativist denies what the normativist asserts—that the concept of semantic correctness is an essentially normative concept. A possible conclusion, therefore, is that the normativist and the anti-normativist operate with different concepts of semantic correctness. This raises the question, however, whether there is nevertheless co-extensionalit