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Protagoras comments on Prescriptive vs. descriptive and objective vs. subjective definitions - Less Wrong Discussion

4 Post author: PhilGoetz 21 January 2014 11:21PM

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Comment author: Protagoras 22 January 2014 02:42:01AM 0 points [-]

There's some good discussion of this sort of thing in C. L. Stevenson's classic Ethics and Language.