Slurs and redundancy
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Date
2022-09Source Title
Philosophia (United States)
Print ISSN
0048-3893
Publisher
Springer
Volume
50
Issue
4
Pages
1607 - 1622
Language
English
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Abstract
According to nearly all theorists writing on the subject, a certain derogatory content is regularly and systematically communicated by slurs. So united, the theorists disagree sharply on the elements of this content, on its provenance, and on its mechanism. I argue that the basic premiss of all these views, that there is any such derogatory content conveyed with the use of slurs, is highly dubious. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V.