Condorcet and Communitarianism
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Communitarianism is the thesis that it is ultimately the dispositions of a community of speakers that determine the content of a symbol. Boghossian‟s reasons for rejecting this theory turn on the fact that he sees the account as unable to accommodate the normativity of meaning, i.e. the fact that the content of a symbol must exclude parts of the world (application of the symbol to which would thus be a mistake). 2 However, as this paper aims to make clear, Boghossian‟s arguments are fallacious: using a version of Condorcet‟s „Jury Theorem‟, it shows that Communitarianism can account for the normativity of meaning after all. 3
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