Quasirealism as semantic dispensability

Derek BAKER

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3 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

I argue that standard explanationist solutions to the problem of creeping minimalism are largely on the right track, but they fail to correctly specify the kind of explanation that is relevant to distinguishing realism from quasirealism. Quasirealism should not be distinguished from realism in terms of the explanations it gives of why a normative judgment—a normative sentence or attitude—has the semantic content that it has. Rather, it should be distinguished in terms of the explanations it offers of what the semantic content of a normative judgment is.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2313-2333
Number of pages21
JournalPhilosophical Studies
Volume178
Issue number7
Early online date23 Sept 2020
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jul 2021

Keywords

  • Expressivism
  • Quasirealism
  • Creeping Minimalism
  • Deflationism

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