TY - JOUR AU - Davies, Alex AU - Kaplinski, Lauris AU - Lepamets, Maarja PY - 2019/12/20 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Meta-Semantic Moral Encroachment: Some Experimental Evidence JF - Studia Philosophica Estonica JA - SPE VL - 12 IS - 0 SE - The Political Turn in Foundational Theories of Meaning DO - UR - https://ojs.utlib.ee/index.php/spe/article/view/16285 SP - 7-33 AB - <p>This paper presents experimental evidence in support of the existence of metalinguistic moral encroachment: the influence of the moral consequences of using a word with a given content upon the content of that word. The evidence collected implies that the effect of moral factors upon content is weak. The implications of this for Esa Diaz-Leon's recent attempt to show how Jennifer Saul can legitimately reject an empirical semantic hypothesis on political grounds are described. Directions for future research are also described.</p> ER -