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    It is not the case that Meaning is essentially normative (ME normativity).

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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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    • 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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