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    Meaning is essentially normative (ME normativity). — Carmelics
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    Meaning is essentially normative (ME normativity).

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    • 1.Meaningful expressions have semantic correctness conditions.
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    • 2.Having semantic correctness conditions is part of the very concept of meaning.
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    • 3.The notion of semantic correctness is an essentially normative notion.
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    • 1.Semantic correctness conditions can be fully specified in terms of truth-conditional or causal-informational relations without invoking normativity.
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    • 2.Kripke's normative reading of Wittgenstein conflates the descriptive fact that uses can be evaluated against standards with the metaphysical claim that meaning itself is constituted by norms.
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    • 3.A dispositional or teleosemantic account (Millikan, Fodor) grounds correctness in natural functions or causal covariance, neither of which is irreducibly normative.
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    • 1.Boghossian's distinction between 'robust' and 'merely semantic' normativity shows that 'ought'-claims derivable from meaning are hypothetical, not categorical, imperatives.
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    • 2.Hypothetical imperatives impose no essentially normative constraint beyond instrumental rationality, which is itself reducible to non-normative preference-satisfaction facts.
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    • 3.Therefore, the normativity entailed by meaning is not the thick, essential normativity the ME thesis requires but a thin derivative sense any descriptive standard can generate.
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    (CM) can hardly be challenged: Meaningful expressions have semantic correctness conditions. Of course, there is some controversy as to how these correctness conditions are to be construed, whether the basic notion of semantic correctness is that of truth or warranted assertability, for instance. However, it cannot be questioned that some notion of semantic correctness is required. This, indeed, seems to be part of the very concept of meaning. If, therefore, the notion of semantic correctness is
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