The paper is devoted to deepening the philosophical background of Paolo Sandro’s conceptual distinction between law-application and law-creation. In §1, I present his main arguments for this distinction, which recommend the adoption of Mario Jori’s macro-pragmatics combined with text-act theory and semantic minimalism. I then offer an alternative characterization of their rival conceptions, skepticism and contextualism in §2, before raising five objections to Sandro’s a- contextualist meaning-determinism, to show how its persuasiveness depends on a misleading conception of language, the fixed-code fallacy – to borrow Roy Harris’ captivating label.
Who Fears the Anti-literalist Bogeyman? On Paolo Sandro’s Meaning-determinism
MUFFATO, Nicola
2023-01-01
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The paper is devoted to deepening the philosophical background of Paolo Sandro’s conceptual distinction between law-application and law-creation. In §1, I present his main arguments for this distinction, which recommend the adoption of Mario Jori’s macro-pragmatics combined with text-act theory and semantic minimalism. I then offer an alternative characterization of their rival conceptions, skepticism and contextualism in §2, before raising five objections to Sandro’s a- contextualist meaning-determinism, to show how its persuasiveness depends on a misleading conception of language, the fixed-code fallacy – to borrow Roy Harris’ captivating label.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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