Does Semantics Need Normativity? Comments on Allan Gibbard, Meaning and Normativity
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عنوان ژورنال: Inquiry
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0020-174X,1502-3923
DOI: 10.1080/0020174x.2018.1424528