{"id":3573,"date":"2019-10-02T04:27:54","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T04:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/10\/02\/the-meaning-of-asshole-2\/"},"modified":"2019-10-02T04:27:54","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T04:27:54","slug":"the-meaning-of-asshole-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/10\/02\/the-meaning-of-asshole-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Meaning of ‘Asshole’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The author offers<\/a> a cognitivist as opposed to expressivist analysis of 'asshole' and other foul words.  But the guy is a 'liberal,' as witness the following bit of squeamishness:<\/span><\/p>\n

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(2) pejorative terms<\/em>, which assume false<\/em> normative or moral claims about certain independently identifiable groups of people (e.g., "honkey\u201d, "wop\u201d, "kike\u201d, \u201climey\u201d, "chink\u201d, "n—-r");<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

He refuses to write out 'nigger' as he does in the other cases. Why not?  The author is well aware of the use-mention distinction. He knows that to talk about a word is not thereby to apply it to someone or something. Why is 'nigger' more offensive than 'kike'? Why the double standard?<\/span><\/p>\n

The author appears to be 'p.c.-whipped.'<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The author offers a cognitivist as opposed to expressivist analysis of 'asshole' and other foul words.  But the guy is a 'liberal,' as witness the following bit of squeamishness: (2) pejorative terms, which assume false normative or moral claims about certain independently identifiable groups of people (e.g., "honkey\u201d, "wop\u201d, "kike\u201d, \u201climey\u201d, "chink\u201d, "n—-r"); He refuses to write out … Continue reading “The Meaning of ‘Asshole’”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[158,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-invective","category-language-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}