TRUE PEJORATIVE SENTENCES BEYOND THE EXISTENTIAL CORE: ON SOME UNWELCOME IMPLICATIONS OF HOM AND MAY’S THEORY*

ABSTRACT This paper considers one of the most significant and controversial attempts to account for meaning pejoratives as lexical items, namely Hom May’s. After outlining theory, we pinpoint sets pejorative sentences that come out true on their which question whether they are compatible with view advocated by them (so-called Moral Semantic Innocence) remains open. Helping ourselves standard model-theoretical framework May (presumably) work in, prove view. Given issues both moral import practical effects utterance not settled proof, then highlight unwelcome pragmatic implications some under scrutiny, thereby showing view, broadly understood, is morally semantically innocuous it meant be.